--- title: Separation of powers means splitting power between the lawmakers, th… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics description: Separation of powers means splitting power between the lawmakers, the government and the courts, so no one part gets too strong; some people say unelected judges should not overrule elected leaders. Who acts: Separation, one part, people, unelected judges. 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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 (Separation, one part, people, unelected judges), 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:17 # text = Separation of powers means splitting power between the lawmakers, the government and the courts, so no one part gets too strong; some people say unelected judges should not overrule elected leaders. # 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 Separation separation NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 splitting split VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 6 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 between between ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lawmakers lawmaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 19 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 too too ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 28 unelected unelected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 judges judge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 overrule overrule VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 33 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Separation of powers | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **split** *not said to happen* | gerund | Separation of powers *not said here* | power | | | | between the lawmakers and the government and the courts | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | | 3 | **get** | present | no one part | | | | | strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **overrule** | should | unelected judges | elected leaders | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **separate** | | powers | | | | | | nom separation «state 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:17`. **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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