--- title: Power is split into three parts so that no one person can do whateve… — Laws, voting and how a country is run · tree and pragmatics description: Power is split into three parts so that no one person can do whatever they like: lawmakers make the laws, the government carries them out, and the courts decide whether a law has been broken. Who acts: one person, parts, lawmakers, government. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one person, parts, lawmakers, government), 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:5 # text = Power is split into three parts so that no one person can do whatever they like: lawmakers make the laws, the government carries them out, and the courts decide whether a law has been broken. # 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): no change 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 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 10 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 14 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 lawmakers lawmaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 33 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 ccomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **split** | present · passive | | Power | | | | into three parts *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into part=Result | | 2 | **do** | can | no one person | whatever | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | | 3 | **like** | present | parts *= part* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **make** | present | lawmakers | the laws | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product | | 5 | **carry out** | present | the government | laws *= law* | | | | | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 6 | **decide** | present | the courts | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **break** | present · perfect · passive | | a law | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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. **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. 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