Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 11

Many studies report that Australia has had far fewer mass shootings since 1996, though people argue about whether other countries could copy it.

Who acts: Many studies, Australia, people, other countries · What happens: report, have, argue, copy · To what, where: fewer mass shootings, shooting

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 (Many studies, Australia, people, other countries), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 studies	amod
2	studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 report	nsubj
3	report	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 had	aux
7	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 report	ccomp
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 fewer	advmod
9	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 shootings	amod
10	mass	mass	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shootings	amod
11	shootings	shooting	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
12	since	since	ADP	_	13 1996	case
13	1996	1996	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 had	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 argue	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 argue	mark
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 argue	nsubj
17	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 had	parataxis
18	about	about	SCONJ	_	23 copy	mark
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	23 copy	mark
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 countries	amod
21	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 copy	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 copy	aux
23	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 argue	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 copy	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 report	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	report	present	Many studies			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	present · perfect	Australia	fewer mass shootings	since 1996	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shooting=Patient
3	argue speech: disagree	present	people			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	copy	could	other countries	shooting		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:11.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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