--- title: Judges are usually not elected so they can rule fairly even when it… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics description: Judges are usually not elected so they can rule fairly even when it is unpopular; when a judge blocks a government plan, that is the system working as designed, though people argue about how far judges should go. Who acts: Judges, captain, judge, that. 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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 (Judges, captain, judge, that), 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:4 # text = Judges are usually not elected so they can rule fairly even when it is unpopular; when a judge blocks a government plan, that is the system working as designed, though people argue about how far judges should go. # 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 ×1 1 Judges judge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 so so SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 rule rule VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 unpopular unpopular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 blocks block VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 29 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 designed design VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 though though SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 36 about about ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 38 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 39 judges judge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:obl 40 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 42 . . 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 | **not** **elect** | present · passive | | Judges | | | | usually *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **rule** | can | Judges *= judge* | | | | | fairly *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | captain | | | | | unpopular *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **block** | present | a judge | a government plan | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer plan=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | that | the system | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **work** | gerund | the system *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **design** | participle | the system *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **go** | should | judges | | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:4`. **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 ×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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