Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 13

In big protests most people may be peaceful while a few break things, and damage and violence are against the law even when the cause is good.

Who acts: most people, few, damage, cause · What happens: be, break · To what, where: big protests, things

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 (most people, few, damage, cause), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 protests	case
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 protests	amod
3	protests	protest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 peaceful	obl
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 peaceful	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 peaceful	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 peaceful	cop
8	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 break	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 few	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 break	nsubj
12	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 peaceful	advcl
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 break	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 law	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 law	cc
16	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 law	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 violence	cc
18	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 damage	conj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 law	cop
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 law	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 law	det
22	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 break	conj
23	even	even	ADV	_	28 good	advmod
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 good	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cause	det
26	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 good	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 good	cop
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 law	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 peaceful	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	may	most people		big protests	peaceful property	tree rules
2	break	present	a few	things			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient
3	is	present	damage and violence			against the law	tree rules
4	is	present	the cause			good 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:13.

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): R6-punct-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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