Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 10
After a mass shooting at Port Arthur in Tasmania in 1996, Australia agreed strict gun laws, banned many kinds of guns and paid people to hand in hundreds of thousands of them.
Who acts: Australia · What happens: agree, ban, pay, hand in · To what, where: strict gun laws, many kinds, people, hundreds
This is a sentence of the lesson «Guns, school safety and arguments about schools» 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 (Australia), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 shooting | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shooting | det |
| 3 | mass | mass | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shooting | amod |
| 4 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 agreed | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Port | case |
| 6 | Port | Port | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shooting | nmod |
| 7 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Port | flat |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Tasmania | case |
| 9 | Tasmania | Tasmania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Port | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1996 | case |
| 11 | 1996 | 1996 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 shooting | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shooting | punct |
| 13 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 agreed | nsubj |
| 14 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 laws | amod |
| 16 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laws | compound |
| 17 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 agreed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 banned | punct |
| 19 | banned | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 agreed | conj |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 kinds | amod |
| 21 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 banned | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 guns | case |
| 23 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kinds | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 paid | cc |
| 25 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 agreed | conj |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 paid | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 hand | mark |
| 28 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 paid | xcomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hand | compound:prt |
| 30 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hand | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 thousands | case |
| 32 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hundreds | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thousands | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Australia | strict gun laws | after a mass shooting at Port in Tasmania in 1996 | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent law=Topic | |||
| 2 | ban | past | Australia not said here | many kinds of guns | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer kind=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | past | Australia not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hand in | to-infinitive | Australia not said here | hundreds of thousands of thousands | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=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:politics:022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.lesson:10.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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