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title: Laws are made by a country's lawmakers, and everyone must follow the… — People and society — communities, work, money an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Laws are made by a country's lawmakers, and everyone must follow them; traffic lights are a law that stops crashes at crossroads. Who acts: lawmakers, everyone, traffic lights, law. A sentence of the lesson «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» of the world course of Mova's prima
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# People and society — communities, work, money and rules, sentence 7

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Laws are made by a country's lawmakers, and everyone must follow them; traffic lights are a law that stops crashes at crossroads.

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**Who acts:** lawmakers, everyone, traffic lights, law · **What happens:** make, follow, be, stop · **To what, where:** Laws, law, crashes, crossroads

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This is a sentence of the lesson «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» 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 (lawmakers, everyone, traffic lights, law), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:058-people-and-society.lesson:7
# text = Laws are made by a country's lawmakers, and everyone must follow them; traffic lights are a law that stops crashes at crossroads.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 058-people-and-society.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	Laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	lawmakers	lawmaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	crashes	crash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	crossroads	crossroad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | present · passive | a country's lawmakers | Laws |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 2 | **follow** | must | everyone | laws *= law* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | traffic lights | a law |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stop** | present | a law | crashes |  | crossroads |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality crash=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:058-people-and-society.lesson:7`.

**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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