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title: In England and Wales a jury in a serious criminal trial is twelve or… — A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets… · tree and pragmatics
description: In England and Wales a jury in a serious criminal trial is twelve ordinary adults; in Scotland it is fifteen. Who acts: jury. 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 pragmat
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# A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong, sentence 9

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In England and Wales a jury in a serious criminal trial is twelve ordinary adults; in Scotland it is fifteen.

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**Who acts:** jury · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** twelve ordinary adults, England, fifteen, Scotland

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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 (jury), 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:9
# text = In England and Wales a jury in a serious criminal trial is twelve ordinary adults; in Scotland it is fifteen.
# 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	_	2	case	_	_
2	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	criminal	criminal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | a jury in a serious criminal trial | twelve ordinary adults |  | England and Wales |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | jury | fifteen |  | Scotland |  |  | 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:9`.

**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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