--- title: A protest is people gathering to show they strongly agree or disagre… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: A protest is people gathering to show they strongly agree or disagree with something; in free countries peaceful protest is a right. Who acts: protest, people, peaceful protest. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (protest, people, peaceful protest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:13 # text = A protest is people gathering to show they strongly agree or disagree with something; in free countries peaceful protest is a right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 protest protest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 gathering gather VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 19 peaceful peaceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 protest protest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a protest | people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **gather** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | people | | | | | strongly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **disagree** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | with something | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with something=Co-Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | peaceful protest | a right | | free countries | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:13`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/12/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)