--- title: The First Amendment to the US Constitution stops the government puni… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics description: The First Amendment to the US Constitution stops the government punishing people for what they say; it does not mean a school, shop or website must let you say anything, and threats are still against the law. Who acts: First Amendment, people, it, school. 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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 (First Amendment, people, it, school), 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:12 # text = The First Amendment to the US Constitution stops the government punishing people for what they say; it does not mean a school, shop or website must let you say anything, and threats are still against the law. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 Amendment amendment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Constitution Constitution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 punishing punish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 website website NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 28 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 threats threat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 37 still still ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 against against ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | the First Amendment to the US Constitution | the government | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **punish** | gerund | the First Amendment to the US Constitution *not said here* | people | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Patient for what=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** | must | a school and shop or website | you | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | | 7 | **is** | present | threats | | | | still | against the law | tree rules | 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:12`. **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, 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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