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title: In some courts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, judges and ba… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics
description: In some courts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, judges and barristers wear wigs and robes, a tradition hundreds of years old; a barrister is a lawyer who argues a case in court. Who acts: judges, barrister, lawyer. A sentence of the lesson «The King, the courts and the rules above the rules» 
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# The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 11

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In some courts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, judges and barristers wear wigs and robes, a tradition hundreds of years old; a barrister is a lawyer who argues a case in court.

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**Who acts:** judges, barrister, lawyer · **What happens:** wear, be, argue · **To what, where:** wigs, courts, lawyer, case, court

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The King, the courts and the rules above the rules» of the politics 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 (judges, barrister, lawyer), 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:11
# text = In some courts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, judges and barristers wear wigs and robes, a tradition hundreds of years old; a barrister is a lawyer who argues a case in court.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Northern	Northern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	barristers	barrister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	wigs	wig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det
21	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	barrister	barrister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	argues	argue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | judges and barristers | wigs and robes and tradition hundreds of years |  | some courts in England and Wales and Northern Ireland |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wig=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a barrister | a lawyer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | a lawyer | a case |  | court |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent case=Topic |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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