--- title: The rule of law means everyone, even leaders, must follow the same l… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics description: The rule of law means everyone, even leaders, must follow the same laws; an accused person is not guilty unless a court decides so. Who acts: rule, everyone, accused person, court. 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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 (rule, everyone, accused person, court), 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:15 # text = The rule of law means everyone, even leaders, must follow the same laws; an accused person is not guilty unless a court decides so. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 12 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 accused accuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 23 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | the rule of law | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **follow** | must | everyone | the same laws | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | | 3 | **accuse** | participle | | | | | | | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | a accused person | | | | | guilty *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **decide** | present | a court | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **rule** | | law | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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:politics:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.lesson:15`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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