--- title: Royal Assent is the King's agreement that turns a bill into a law; b… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics description: Royal Assent is the King's agreement that turns a bill into a law; by custom he always gives it, and no monarch has refused for over 300 years. Who acts: Royal Assent, agreement, Assent, monarch. 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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 (Royal Assent, agreement, Assent, monarch), 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:5 # text = Royal Assent is the King's agreement that turns a bill into a law; by custom he always gives it, and no monarch has refused for over 300 years. # 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 ×2 1 Royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Assent assent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 agreement agreement NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 custom custom NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 always always ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:iobj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 refused refuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 over over ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Royal Assent | the King's agreement | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | present | the King's agreement | a bill | | a law | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bill=Theme into law=Trajectory | | 3 | **give** | present | Assent | bill | | | | by custom; always *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **refuse** | present · perfect | no monarch | | | | year | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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:5`. **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 ×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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