Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 11

Some say young activists are told what to say by adults; others say young people think for themselves; both can be partly true.

Who acts: Some, young activists, others, young people, both · What happens: say, tell, think, be · To what, where: young activists · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Some, young activists, others, young people), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 activists	amod
4	activists	activist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 say	ccomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 say	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 adults	case
11	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 think	nsubj
17	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 say	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 themselves	case
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 think	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 true	punct
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	25 true	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 true	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 true	cop
24	partly	partly	ADV	_	25 true	advmod
25	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 told	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive		young activists		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	young activists not said here		by adults	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present	others			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	think speech: other	present	young people		for people	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	can	both		partly, true property	tree rules

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:11.

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 ×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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