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title: The most basic rules of how a country is run are written in its cons… — Laws, voting and how a country is run · tree and pragmatics
description: The most basic rules of how a country is run are written in its constitution. Who acts: country. 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 7

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The most basic rules of how a country is run are written in its constitution.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** run, write, constitute · **To what, where:** country, basic rules, constitution

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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 (country), 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:7
# text = The most basic rules of how a country is run are written in its constitution.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	basic	basic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **run** | present · passive |  | a country |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **write** | present · passive |  | the basic rules |  | country's constitution |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in constitution=Destination |
| 3 | **constitute** |  | country |  |  |  |  |  | nom constitution «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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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