Climate: hot summers and hot arguments, sentence 18

In 2022 two protesters threw tomato soup at Van Gogh's «Sunflowers» in London; the painting was behind glass and was not damaged, news reports said.

Who acts: two protesters, painting, news reports · What happens: throw, be, not damage, say · To what, where: tomato soup, 2022, glass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» 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 (two protesters, painting, news reports), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 2022	case
2	2022	2022	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 threw	obl
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 protesters	nummod
4	protesters	protester	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 threw	nsubj
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	ccomp
6	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soup	compound
7	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	13 Sunflowers	case
9	Van	Van	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Sunflowers	nmod:poss
10	Gogh	Gogh	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Van	flat
11	's	's	PART	_	9 Van	case
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 Sunflowers	punct
13	Sunflowers	sunflower	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 threw	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 Sunflowers	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 London	case
16	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 painting	det
19	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 glass	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 glass	cop
21	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 glass	case
22	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Sunflowers	appos
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 damaged	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 damaged	aux:pass
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 damaged	advmod
26	damaged	damage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 threw	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
28	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reports	compound
29	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	two protesters	tomato soup	2022	at Van's Sunflowers; in London	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent soup=Theme in 2022=Destination
2	is	past	the painting		glass		tree rules
3	not damage	past · passive	two protesters not said here				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»
4	say speech: assert	past	news reports				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:18.

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 ×2, 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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