--- title: The King and the royal family stay neutral: they do not vote and do… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics description: The King and the royal family stay neutral: they do not vote and do not say which party they support; a constitutional monarchy is one where the king's powers are limited by rules. Who acts: King, decisions, constitutional monarchy, rules. 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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 (King, decisions, constitutional monarchy, rules), 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:8 # text = The King and the royal family stay neutral: they do not vote and do not say which party they support; a constitutional monarchy is one where the king's powers are limited by rules. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 neutral neutral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 18 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 19 det _ _ 19 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 support support VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl:relcl 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 constitutional constitutional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 monarchy monarchy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 ccomp _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 limited limit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | present | the King and the royal family | | | | | neutral *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **vote** | present · do-support | decisions *= decision* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | decisions *= decision* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **support** | present | decisions *= decision* | which party | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer party=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | a constitutional monarchy | one | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **limit** | present · passive | rules | the king's powers | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Patient | 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:8`. **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 ×2, 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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