What politics is: deciding things together, sentence 12
A protest is when people gather to show they want something changed; in many countries peaceful protest is allowed, and people argue about its limits, such as blocking roads.
Who acts: protest, People · What happens: be, show, want, change, allow, argue · To what, where: something, peaceful protest, many countries · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What politics is: deciding things together» of the politics 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), 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 | 6 gather | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gather | cop |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 gather | advmod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gather | nsubj |
| 6 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 show | mark |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gather | xcomp |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 show | ccomp |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 want | obj |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 something | acl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 allowed | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 countries | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 countries | amod |
| 16 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 allowed | obl |
| 17 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 protest | amod |
| 18 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 allowed | aux:pass |
| 20 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 changed | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 argue | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 argue | cc |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 argue | nsubj |
| 24 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 allowed | conj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 limits | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 limits | nmod:poss |
| 27 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 argue | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 roads | punct |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 32 roads | case |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 such | fixed |
| 31 | blocking | block | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 roads | amod |
| 32 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 limits | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gather | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a protest | gather property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | a protest not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want | present | People | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 4 | change | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | allow | present · passive | peaceful protest | many countries | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | argue speech: disagree | present | people | about protest's limits and blocking roads | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about limit=Topic | ||||
| 7 | block | gerund | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:12.
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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