Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 1
Picture the playground: if lots of kids sign a paper asking for a new bench and take it to the head, she is more likely to listen than if one kid moans alone; that is how a petition works, only bigger.
Who acts: you, lots, paper, she, one kid, that · What happens: picture, sign, ask, take, be, listen · To what, where: playground, paper, head
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 (you, lots, paper, she), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 playground | det |
| 3 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 sign | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 sign | mark |
| 6 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sign | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kids | case |
| 8 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lots | nmod |
| 9 | sign | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 paper | det |
| 11 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sign | obj |
| 12 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 paper | acl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 bench | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bench | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bench | amod |
| 16 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asking | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sign | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 head | det |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 likely | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 likely | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 likely | cop |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 likely | advmod |
| 27 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 listen | mark |
| 29 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 likely | xcomp |
| 30 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 34 moans | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 moans | mark |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 kid | nummod |
| 33 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 moans | nsubj |
| 34 | moans | moan | VERB | Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 listen | advcl |
| 35 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 34 moans | advmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 works | punct |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 how | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 how | cop |
| 39 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 works | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 petition | det |
| 41 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 works | nsubj |
| 42 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | ccomp |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 works | punct |
| 44 | only | only | ADV | _ | 45 bigger | advmod |
| 45 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 works | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | the playground | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent playground=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sign a condition, not said to happen | present | lots of kids | a paper | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Destination | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a paper not said here | for a new bench | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | present | lots of kids not said here | paper | the head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to head=Destination | |||
| 5 | is | present | she | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | listen | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | moan a condition, not said to happen | present | one kid | alone property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | is | present | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | work | present | a petition | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:1.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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