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# A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 18

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British judges have worn wigs and robes for hundreds of years as a tradition; in the book the King wears his crown on top of his wig and looks very uncomfortable.

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**Who acts:** British judges, King · **What happens:** wear, look, crown · **To what, where:** wigs, crown, book

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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 (British judges, King), 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:18
# text = British judges have worn wigs and robes for hundreds of years as a tradition; in the book the King wears his crown on top of his wig and looks very uncomfortable.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	wigs	wig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **wear** | present · perfect | British judges | wigs and robes |  |  |  | for hundreds of years as a tradition | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wig=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | present | the King | King's crown |  | the book |  | on top of King's wig | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | uncomfortable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **crown** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:18`.

**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 ×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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