Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 9

The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protects a right to keep and bear arms, and Americans argue about what that allows.

Who acts: Second Amendment, Americans · What happens: protect, keep, bear, argue, allow, amend · To what, where: right, arms, US Constitution

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 (Second Amendment, Americans), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Amendment	det
2	Second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Amendment	amod
3	Amendment	amendment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 protects	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Constitution	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Constitution	det
6	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Constitution	compound
7	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Amendment	nmod
8	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 right	det
10	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 protects	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 keep	mark
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 right	acl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bear	cc
14	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 keep	conj
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bear	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 argue	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Americans	cc
18	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 argue	nsubj
19	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 protects	conj
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 what	case
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 argue	obl
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 allows	nsubj
23	allows	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 protects	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	protect	present	the Second Amendment of the US Constitution	a right	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Beneficiary
2	keep	to-infinitive	the Second Amendment of the US Constitution not said here	a right not said here	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	bear	infinitive	the Second Amendment of the US Constitution not said here	arms	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
4	argue speech: disagree	present	Americans		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about what=Topic
5	allow	present			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
6	amend			the US Constitution	nom amendment «act transitive»: of=patient

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:9.

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): no change. 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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