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title: The verdict is the jury's decision, guilty or not guilty; the senten… — A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets… · tree and pragmatics
description: The verdict is the jury's decision, guilty or not guilty; the sentence is the punishment the judge gives, and it can only come after a guilty verdict. Who acts: verdict, sentence, judge. A sentence of the lesson «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong» of the world course of M
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# A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 13

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The verdict is the jury's decision, guilty or not guilty; the sentence is the punishment the judge gives, and it can only come after a guilty verdict.

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**Who acts:** verdict, sentence, judge · **What happens:** be, give, come · **To what, where:** decision, punishment

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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 (verdict, sentence, judge), 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:13
# text = The verdict is the jury's decision, guilty or not guilty; the sentence is the punishment the judge gives, and it can only come after a guilty verdict.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	verdict	verdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
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	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	verdict	verdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | the verdict | the jury's decision |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the sentence | the punishment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | present | the judge | the punishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | can | sentence |  |  |  | after a guilty verdict |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:13`.

**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. **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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