Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 4

Smashing windows or hurting people is against the law even when the cause is good, and children go to marches only with a trusted adult and a safety plan.

Who acts: Smashing, cause, children · What happens: smash, hurt, be, go, trust · To what, where: windows, people, marches

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 (Smashing, cause, children), 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	Smashing	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 law	csubj
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Smashing	obj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 hurting	cc
4	hurting	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Smashing	conj
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurting	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 law	cop
7	against	against	ADP	_	9 law	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 law	det
9	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	even	even	ADV	_	9 law	advmod
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 good	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cause	det
13	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 good	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 good	cop
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 law	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 go	nsubj
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 law	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 marches	case
21	marches	march	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 go	obl
22	only	only	ADV	_	26 adult	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 adult	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 adult	det
25	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 adult	amod
26	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 plan	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 plan	det
29	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 plan	compound
30	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 adult	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 law	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smash	gerund		windows			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme
2	hurt	gerund		people			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient
3	is	present	Smashing			against the law	tree rules
4	is	present	the cause			good property	tree rules
5	go	present	children		marches	with a trusted adult and a safety plan	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to march=Initial_Location
6	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:4.

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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