Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 18

Australia passed a law, starting in December 2025, saying big social media apps must stop under-16s from having accounts, news reports said.

Who acts: Australia, big media apps, news reports · What happens: pass, start, say, stop, have · To what, where: law, 16s, accounts · 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 (Australia, big media apps, 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	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 law	det
4	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 starting	punct
6	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 passed	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 December	case
8	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 starting	obl
9	2025	2025	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 December	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 passed	advcl
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 apps	amod
13	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 media	amod
14	media	media	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 apps	compound
15	apps	app	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stop	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stop	aux
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 saying	ccomp
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 16s	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 under	punct
20	16s	16	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	17 stop	obj
21	from	from	SCONJ	_	22 having	mark
22	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 stop	advcl
23	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 having	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reports	punct
25	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reports	compound
26	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pass	past	Australia	a law		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme law=Trajectory
2	start	gerund	Australia not said here		december	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Australia not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stop	must	big media apps	16s		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality 16=Eventuality
5	have	gerund	big media apps not said here	accounts		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Patient
6	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:022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.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 ×4, 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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