Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 13
A protest is people gathering to show they strongly agree or disagree with something; in free countries peaceful protest is a right.
Who acts: protest, people, peaceful protest · What happens: be, gather, show, agree, disagree · To what, where: people, right, free countries · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life 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 (protest, people, peaceful protest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 protest | det |
| 2 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 people | cop |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | gathering | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 people | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 show | mark |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gathering | advcl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 agree | nsubj |
| 9 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 10 agree | advmod |
| 10 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 show | ccomp |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 disagree | cc |
| 12 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 agree | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 something | case |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 disagree | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 right | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 countries | case |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 countries | amod |
| 18 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 right | obl |
| 19 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 protest | amod |
| 20 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 right | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 right | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 right | det |
| 23 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 people | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a protest | people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gather | gerund | people not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | present | people | strongly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | disagree | present | people not said here | with something | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with something=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | peaceful protest | a right | free countries | tree rules |
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, 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:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:13.
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 ×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.
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