Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 4
When people want something changed, they can protest peacefully, sign a petition, or stop work together in a strike.
Who acts: people, something · What happens: want, change, protest, sign, stop · To what, where: something, petition, work
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 (people, something), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 want | advmod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 protest | advcl |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 protest | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 protest | aux |
| 9 | protest | protest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 9 protest | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sign | punct |
| 12 | sign | sign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 protest | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 petition | det |
| 14 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sign | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stop | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 stop | cc |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 protest | conj |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stop | obj |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 work | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 strike | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 strike | det |
| 22 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 work | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 protest | 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 | want | present | people | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change not said to happen | participle | something not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | protest speech: disagree | can | people | peacefully property | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sign | infinitive | people not said here | a petition | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent petition=Destination | ||||
| 5 | stop | infinitive | people not said here | work | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality work=Eventuality |
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:4.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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