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title: Evidence is anything that helps show what really happened: things th… — A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets… · tree and pragmatics
description: Evidence is anything that helps show what really happened: things that were found, what witnesses saw, written papers, pictures or recordings. Who acts: Evidence, witnesses, things. A sentence of the lesson «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong» of the world course of Mova's
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# A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 11

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Evidence is anything that helps show what really happened: things that were found, what witnesses saw, written papers, pictures or recordings.

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**Who acts:** Evidence, witnesses, things · **What happens:** be, help, show, happen, find, see · **To what, where:** anything, things · **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 (Evidence, witnesses, things), 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:11
# text = Evidence is anything that helps show what really happened: things that were found, what witnesses saw, written papers, pictures or recordings.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
17	witnesses	witness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	recordings	recording	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Evidence | anything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past · passive |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 6 | **see** | past | witnesses | things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 7 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **paper** |  | things |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:world:191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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