Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 10
As widely reported, after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida in 2018, students organised the March for Our Lives to ask for stricter gun laws, and other Americans disagreed with what they asked for.
Who acts: students, other Americans, Americans · What happens: report, organise, ask, disagree
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 (students, other Americans, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 reported | mark |
| 2 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 3 reported | advmod |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 organised | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shooting | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 shooting | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shooting | det |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shooting | compound |
| 8 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reported | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Parkland | case |
| 10 | Parkland | Parkland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shooting | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Florida | punct |
| 12 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Parkland | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 2018 | case |
| 14 | 2018 | 2018 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 shooting | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
| 16 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 organised | nsubj |
| 17 | organised | organise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 March | det |
| 19 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 organised | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Lives | case |
| 21 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Lives | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Lives | life | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 March | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 organised | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 laws | case |
| 26 | stricter | strict | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 laws | amod |
| 27 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laws | compound |
| 28 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ask | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 disagreed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Americans | cc |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Americans | amod |
| 32 | Americans | American | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 disagreed | nsubj |
| 33 | disagreed | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 organised | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 what | case |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 disagreed | obl |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 asked | nsubj |
| 37 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 what | acl:relcl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 asked | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 organised | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | participle | students not said here | after a school shooting in Parkland Florida in 2018 | widely property | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | organise | past | students | march | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | students not said here | for stricter gun laws | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | disagree | past | other Americans | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with what=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | Americans = american | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:10.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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