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title: In a fair trial, the person accused is treated as innocent until it… — A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a fair trial, the person accused is treated as innocent until it is proved, with evidence, that they did it. Who acts: jurors. 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 with its dependency tree and the pra
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# A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 2

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In a fair trial, the person accused is treated as innocent until it is proved, with evidence, that they did it.

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**Who acts:** jurors · **What happens:** accuse, treat, prove, do · **To what, where:** person, fair trial

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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 (jurors), 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:2
# text = In a fair trial, the person accused is treated as innocent until it is proved, with evidence, that they did it.
# 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	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	accused	accuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
13	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **accuse** | participle |  | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **treat** | present · passive |  | the person |  | a fair trial |  | as innocent | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as innocent=Attribute |
| 3 | **prove** | present · passive |  | person |  |  |  | with evidence | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past | jurors *= juror* | person |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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:2`.

**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.

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

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