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title: Power is shared between lawmakers, the government and the courts, so… — Laws, voting and how a country is run · tree and pragmatics
description: Power is shared between lawmakers, the government and the courts, so that each can check the others. Who acts: each. A sentence of the lesson «Laws, voting and how a country is run» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Laws, voting and how a country is run, sentence 18

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Power is shared between lawmakers, the government and the courts, so that each can check the others.

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**Who acts:** each · **What happens:** share, check · **To what, where:** Power, others

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laws, voting and how a country is run» 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 (each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:096-laws-voting-government.lesson:18
# text = Power is shared between lawmakers, the government and the courts, so that each can check the others.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 096-laws-voting-government.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	lawmakers	lawmaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present · passive |  | Power |  |  |  | between lawmakers and the government and the courts | tree rules |
| 2 | **check** | can | each | the others |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |

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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:096-laws-voting-government.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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