Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 15

In many US school districts parents and school boards have argued about removing some library books; some call it checking books for age, others call it banning.

Who acts: parents, some, others · What happens: argue, remove, call, check, ban · To what, where: many US school districts, library books, door, books · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (parents, some, 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	In	in	ADP	_	6 parents	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 districts	amod
3	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 districts	compound
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 districts	compound
5	districts	district	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 argued	obl
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 argued	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 boards	cc
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boards	compound
9	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 parents	conj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 argued	aux
11	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 removing	mark
13	removing	remove	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 argued	advcl
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 books	det
15	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 books	compound
16	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 removing	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 checking	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 call	nsubj
19	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 argued	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 call	obj
21	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 call	xcomp
22	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 checking	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 age	case
24	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 checking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 call	punct
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 call	nsubj
27	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 argued	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 call	obj
29	banning	ban	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 call	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 argued	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present · perfect	parents and school boards	many US school districts		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remove	gerund	parents and school boards not said here	some library books		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
3	call	present	some	door		tree rules
4	check	gerund	some not said here	books	for age	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent book=Theme for age=Attribute
5	call	present	others	door		tree rules
6	ban	gerund	others not said here			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:022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.lesson:15.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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