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description: «Innocent until proven guilty» means the person accused does not have to prove they are innocent: the accusers must prove they are guilty. Who acts: Innocent, person, England, accusers. A sentence of the lesson «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong» of the world course of Mo
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# A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 10

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«Innocent until proven guilty» means the person accused does not have to prove they are innocent: the accusers must prove they are guilty.

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**Who acts:** Innocent, person, England, accusers · **What happens:** prove, mean, accuse, not have, be · **To what, where:** person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Innocent, person, England, accusers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong.lesson:10
# text = «Innocent until proven guilty» means the person accused does not have to prove they are innocent: the accusers must prove they are guilty.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong.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): no change
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
3	until	until	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	guilty	guilty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	accused	accuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	accusers	accuser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Innocent |  |  |  | until proven guilty |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **accuse** | participle |  | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | the person |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **prove** | to-infinitive | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | England |  |  |  |  | innocent *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **prove** | must | the accusers |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | present | England |  |  |  |  | guilty *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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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