--- title: In a fair court the rules are written down before the trial and are… — A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets… · tree and pragmatics description: In a fair court the rules are written down before the trial and are the same for everyone; nobody may invent a rule in the middle to win. Who acts: nobody. 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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 (nobody), 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:15 # text = In a fair court the rules are written down before the trial and are the same for everyone; nobody may invent a rule in the middle to win. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 20 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 22 nsubj _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 invent invent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write down** | present · passive | | the rules | | a fair court | before the trial | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in court=Destination | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | for everyone; same *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **invent** | may | nobody | a rule | | the middle | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Result | | 4 | **win** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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:world:191-a-fair-trial-and-the-wonderland-court-that-gets-it-all-wrong.lesson:15`. **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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