Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 3

Many school arguments are about the same few things: safety, freedom, fairness, and who decides — parents, teachers, school boards, governments or children themselves.

Who acts: Many school arguments, safety · What happens: be, decide · To what, where: parents

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 school arguments, safety), 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	3 arguments	amod
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arguments	compound
3	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	nsubj
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 things	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 things	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 safety	punct
11	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 things	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 freedom	punct
13	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 safety	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fairness	punct
15	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 safety	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 decides	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 decides	cc
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 decides	nsubj
19	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 safety	acl:relcl
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 parents	punct
21	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 decides	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 teachers	punct
23	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 parents	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 boards	punct
25	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 boards	compound
26	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 parents	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 governments	punct
28	governments	government	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 parents	conj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 children	cc
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 parents	conj
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	21 parents	nmod:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 things	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	Many school arguments					about the same few things	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about thing=Location
2	decide	present	safety and freedom and fairness	parents arguments and teachers and school boards and governments or children					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent parent=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:3.

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.

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