Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 6

A petition is a written request signed by many people, and on some governments' petition websites a big petition can get a reply or a debate in parliament.

Who acts: petition, big petition · What happens: write, be, sign, get · To what, where: written request, reply, petition websites

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 (petition, big petition), 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 petition	det
2	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 request	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 request	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 request	det
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 request	amod
6	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 request	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 people	case
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 signed	obl:agent
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 request	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 get	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	18 websites	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 governments	det
15	governments	government	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 websites	nmod:poss
16	'	's	PART	_	15 governments	case
17	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 websites	compound
18	websites	website	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 get	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 petition	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 petition	amod
21	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 request	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 reply	det
25	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 debate	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 debate	det
28	debate	debate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reply	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 parliament	case
30	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 request	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a petition	a written request			tree rules
3	sign	participle		a written request not said here			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	can	a big petition	a reply or a debate	some governments's petition websites	in parliament	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent reply=Theme on website=Source

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:6.

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): R1-cc-next ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/6/