--- title: The Constitution is a country's top set of rules; the US Supreme Cou… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics description: The Constitution is a country's top set of rules; the US Supreme Court decides whether laws and government actions fit it. Who acts: Constitution, US Supreme Court, laws. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Constitution, US Supreme Court, laws), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.lesson:10 # text = The Constitution is a country's top set of rules; the US Supreme Court decides whether laws and government actions fit it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Constitution Constitution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 Supreme Supreme PROPN NNP _ 15 compound _ _ 15 Court Court PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 17 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Constitution | a country's top set | | | | of rules | tree rules | | 2 | **decide** | present | the US Supreme Court | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fit** | present | laws and government actions | court | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:politics:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.lesson:10`. **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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