When work goes wrong, sentence 14
A picket line is striking workers standing outside their workplace with signs, peacefully asking others not to go in.
Who acts: picket line, others · What happens: strike, stand, ask, not go in · To what, where: workers, workplace, others
This is a sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» 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 (picket line, others), 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 | 3 line | det |
| 2 | picket | picket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 line | compound |
| 3 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 striking | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 striking | aux |
| 5 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 striking | obj |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 striking | acl |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 10 workplace | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 workplace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | workplace | workplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 signs | case |
| 12 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 standing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asking | punct |
| 14 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 15 asking | advmod |
| 15 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 striking | conj |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 asking | obj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 go | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asking | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 striking | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present · progressive | a picket line | workers | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | workers's workplace | with signs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside workplace=Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a picket line not said here | others | peacefully property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | not go in not said to happen | to-infinitive | others not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:004-when-work-goes-wrong.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): 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.
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