Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 0
There are many peaceful ways to ask for change: a protest, where people gather in public with signs, songs and speeches; a petition, a list of names asking for the same thing; and a polite letter to your MP.
Who acts: many peaceful ways, people, names · What happens: be, ask, gather, list · To what, where: public, names
This is a sentence of the lesson «Protests, petitions and young activists» 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 peaceful ways, people, names), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ways | amod |
| 4 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ways | amod |
| 5 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ways | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 change | case |
| 9 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 protest | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 protest | det |
| 12 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ways | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gather | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 gather | advmod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gather | nsubj |
| 16 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 protest | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 public | case |
| 18 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gather | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 signs | case |
| 20 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gather | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 songs | punct |
| 22 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 signs | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 speeches | cc |
| 24 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 signs | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 petition | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 petition | det |
| 27 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 protest | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 list | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 list | det |
| 30 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 protest | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 names | case |
| 32 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 list | nmod |
| 33 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 names | acl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 thing | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 thing | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 thing | amod |
| 37 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 asking | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 letter | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 letter | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 letter | det |
| 41 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 letter | amod |
| 42 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 protest | conj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 MP | case |
| 44 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 MP | nmod:poss |
| 45 | MP | MP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 letter | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | 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 peaceful ways | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | many peaceful ways not said here | for change | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | gather | present | people | public | with signs and songs and speeches | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with sign=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | names not said here | for the same thing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | list | names | nom list «communication 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:038-protests-petitions-and-young-activists.lesson:0.
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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