Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 15
A strike is when workers stop working together to push for better pay or conditions, and it is legal if they follow the rules.
Who acts: workers, strike · What happens: stop, be, push, follow · To what, where: rules
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 (workers, strike), 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 strike | det |
| 2 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 working | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 working | cop |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 working | advmod |
| 5 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stop | nsubj |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 working | parataxis |
| 7 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 working | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 push | mark |
| 10 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 working | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 pay | case |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 pay | amod |
| 13 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 push | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 conditions | cc |
| 15 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pay | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 legal | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 legal | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 legal | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 legal | cop |
| 20 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 working | parataxis |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 follow | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 follow | nsubj |
| 23 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 legal | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rules | det |
| 25 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 follow | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 working | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | workers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a strike | together, work property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | push | to-infinitive | a strike not said here | for better pay or conditions | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | strike | legal property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | follow a condition, not said to happen | present | workers = worker | the rules | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
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:15.
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): R5-strong ×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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