Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 2
Young people have started big things: Greta Thunberg's school strike for climate, Malala Yousafzai speaking up for girls' education, students organising the March for Our Lives; many admire them and many disagree with what they ask for.
Who acts: Young people, Malala, students, many, people, Greta · What happens: start, speak up, organise, admire, disagree, ask · To what, where: big things, people
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 (Young people, Malala, students, many), 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 started | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | aux |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 started | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 strike | punct |
| 8 | Greta | Greta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 strike | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Thunberg | Thunberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Greta | flat |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Greta | case |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strike | compound |
| 12 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 things | acl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 climate | case |
| 14 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strike | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Malala | punct |
| 16 | Malala | Malala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 strike | appos |
| 17 | Yousafzai | Yousafzai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Malala | flat |
| 18 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 Malala | acl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 speaking | compound:prt |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 education | case |
| 21 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 education | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 21 girls | case |
| 23 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 speaking | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 students | punct |
| 25 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 education | conj |
| 26 | organising | organise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 students | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 March | det |
| 28 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 organising | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 Lives | case |
| 30 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 Lives | nmod:poss |
| 31 | Lives | life | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 March | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 admire | punct |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 admire | nsubj |
| 34 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 things | acl |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 admire | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 disagree | cc |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 disagree | nsubj |
| 38 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 admire | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 what | case |
| 40 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 disagree | obl |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 ask | nsubj |
| 42 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 what | acl:relcl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 ask | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present · perfect | Young people | big things | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | speak up speech: other | gerund | Malala not said here | for girls's education and students | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | organise | gerund | students not said here | march | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | admire | infinitive | many | people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | disagree | present | many | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with what=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | present | people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | strike | Greta | for climate | nom strike «act intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl | |||||
| 8 | educate | girls | nom education «act transitive»: poss=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:2.
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. 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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