Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 7

An MP represents everyone in their area, including children who cannot vote yet, and writing politely is a real way to be heard.

Who acts: MP, children · What happens: represent, not vote, write, be, hear · To what, where: everyone, real way

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 (MP, 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 MP	det
2	MP	mp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 represents	nsubj
3	represents	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 represents	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 area	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 area	nmod:poss
7	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everyone	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 children	punct
9	including	include	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 everyone	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 vote	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 vote	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 vote	advmod
14	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 children	acl:relcl
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 vote	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 way	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 way	cc
18	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 way	nsubj
19	politely	politely	ADV	_	18 writing	advmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 way	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 represents	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 heard	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 heard	aux:pass
26	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 way	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 represents	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	represent	present	a MP	everyone		include children; in people's area	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot everyone=Theme in area=Attribute
2	not vote	can	children		yet		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	write	gerund				politely property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		a real way			tree rules
5	hear	to-infinitive · passive	a MP not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»

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:7.

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. 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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