Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 14

A petition is a list of names of people asking for a change; the more people sign it, the harder it is for those in charge to ignore.

Who acts: petition, people, more people · What happens: be, ask, sign, ignore, name · To what, where: list, petition, charge, people

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 (petition, people, more people), 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 petition	det
2	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 list	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 list	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 list	det
5	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 names	case
7	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 list	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 names	nmod
10	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 people	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 change	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 change	det
13	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asking	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sign	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sign	nsubj
18	sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 harder	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sign	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 harder	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 harder	det
22	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 list	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 those	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 those	cop
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 those	case
26	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 harder	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 charge	case
28	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 those	nmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 ignore	mark
30	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 charge	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 list	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a petition	a list		of names of people	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	people not said here			for a change	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sign	present	the more people	petition			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
4	is	present	petition		charge	for those	tree rules
5	ignore	to-infinitive	petition not said here				vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	name			people			nom name «communication transitive»: of=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, 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:14.

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): R6-punct-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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