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title: Many countries also wrote rights into their own laws, such as the US… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics
description: Many countries also wrote rights into their own laws, such as the US Bill of Rights (the first ten changes to the US Constitution) and the UK's Human Rights Act. Who acts: Many countries. A sentence of the lesson «The King, the courts and the rules above the rules» of the politics course of Mova's p
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# The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 14

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Many countries also wrote rights into their own laws, such as the US Bill of Rights (the first ten changes to the US Constitution) and the UK's Human Rights Act.

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**Who acts:** Many countries · **What happens:** write · **To what, where:** rights, own laws

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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 (Many countries), 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:14
# text = Many countries also wrote rights into their own laws, such as the US Bill of Rights (the first ten changes to the US Constitution) and the UK's Human Rights Act.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Rights	Right	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
21	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	Human	Human	PROPN	NNP	_	33	compound	_	_
33	Rights	Right	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	compound	_	_
34	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **write** | past | Many countries | rights |  | Rights's own laws |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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