Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 15

On climate, some say action must be fast because waiting makes it worse; others say changes that come too fast can cost jobs and make fuel too expensive.

Who acts: some, action, others, changes · What happens: say, be, wait, make, come, cost · To what, where: climate, action, jobs, fuel · 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, action, others, changes), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 climate	case
2	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fast	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fast	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 fast	cop
9	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 makes	mark
11	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 makes	nsubj
12	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fast	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 makes	obj
14	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 makes	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	conj
18	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cost	nsubj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 come	nsubj
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 changes	acl:relcl
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 fast	advmod
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 come	advmod
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 cost	aux
24	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	ccomp
25	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cost	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 make	cc
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 cost	conj
28	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 expensive	advmod
30	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 make	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	some		climate		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	must	action			fast property	tree rules
3	wait	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	present		action		bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
5	say speech: assert	present	others				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come	present	changes			fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cost	can	changes	jobs			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme job=Value
8	make	infinitive	changes not said here	fuel		expensive property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuel=Product

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:15.

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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