--- title: Think of a football match where even the team captain gets a yellow… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a football match where even the team captain gets a yellow card for a foul: in the same way, a minister or even a former leader must go to court if accused, because nobody is above the law, and being accused is not the same as being guilty. Who acts: you, team captain, minister, nobody. 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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 (you, team captain, minister, nobody), 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:3 # text = Think of a football match where even the team captain gets a yellow card for a foul: in the same way, a minister or even a former leader must go to court if accused, because nobody is above the law, and being accused is not the same as being guilty. # 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 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 foul foul NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 even even ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 31 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 34 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 accused accuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advcl 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 because because SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 39 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 43 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 above above ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 advcl _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 accused accuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 conj _ _ 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 49 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 parataxis _ _ 52 as as SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 53 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 54 cop _ _ 54 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 advcl _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a football match | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | present | the team captain | a yellow card | | | | for a foul | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent card=Theme for foul=Source | | 3 | **go** | must | a minister or a former leader | | | the same way | | to court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **accuse** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | a minister or a former leader *not said here* | | | | | | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | nobody | | | the law | | | tree rules | | 6 | **accuse** | gerund · passive | nobody *not said here* | | | | | | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING» | | 7 | **not** **is** | present | | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | guilty *property* | 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:3`. **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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