--- title: So when Toad's trial makes you laugh, ask: what would a real court h… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: So when Toad's trial makes you laugh, ask: what would a real court have done, then and now? Who acts: trial, you, real court, Toad. A sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/84-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Gaols, magistrates and old punishments…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/84-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908/) / 7 # Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 7 So when Toad's trial makes you laugh, ask: what would a real court have done, then and now? **Who acts:** trial, you, real court, Toad · **What happens:** make, laugh, ask, do, try · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trial, you, real court, Toad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:7 # text = So when Toad's trial makes you laugh, ask: what would a real court have done, then and now? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 3 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 8 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 conj _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Toad's trial | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **laugh** | infinitive | Toad's trial *not said here* | you | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** | would · perfect | a real court | | | | then | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 5 | **try** | | Toad | | | | | | nom trial «act transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:7`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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