Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 17
In 2019 Quebec passed a law stopping some public workers, including public school teachers, from wearing religious symbols at work; it has been challenged in court.
Who acts: Quebec, law · What happens: pass, stop, wear, challenge · To what, where: law, 2019, public workers, religious symbols, work, court
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 (Quebec, law), 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 2019 | case |
| 2 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 passed | obl |
| 3 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 law | det |
| 6 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obj |
| 7 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 law | acl |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 workers | det |
| 9 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 workers | amod |
| 10 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stopping | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 teachers | punct |
| 12 | including | include | ADP | _ | 15 teachers | case |
| 13 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 school | amod |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 teachers | compound |
| 15 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 workers | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wearing | punct |
| 17 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 18 wearing | mark |
| 18 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stopping | advcl |
| 19 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 symbols | amod |
| 20 | symbols | symbol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wearing | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 work | case |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wearing | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 challenged | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 challenged | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 challenged | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 challenged | aux:pass |
| 27 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 court | case |
| 29 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 challenged | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Quebec | a law | 2019 | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent law=Theme in 2019=Destination | |||
| 2 | stop | gerund | a law not said here | some public workers | include school teachers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality worker=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | wear | gerund | a law not said here | religious symbols | work | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent symbol=Source | |||
| 4 | challenge | present · perfect · passive | work | court | tree rules |
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:17.
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, 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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