Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 14
A counter-protest is a protest by people who disagree with another protest, and police often keep the two groups apart.
Who acts: counter-protest, people, police · What happens: be, disagree, keep · To what, where: protest, two groups
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 (counter-protest, people, police), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 counter-protest | det |
| 2 | counter-protest | counter-protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 protest | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 protest | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 protest | det |
| 5 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 protest | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 disagree | nsubj |
| 9 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 people | acl:relcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 protest | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 protest | det |
| 12 | protest | protest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disagree | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 keep | cc |
| 15 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 keep | advmod |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 protest | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 groups | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 groups | nummod |
| 20 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 keep | obj |
| 21 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 17 keep | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 protest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a counter-protest | a protest | by people | tree rules | |||
| 2 | disagree | present | people | with another protest | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with protest=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | police | the two groups | apart, often property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme |
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:14.
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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