--- title: A petition is a list of names of people asking for a change; the mor… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: A petition is a list of names of people asking for a change; the more people sign it, the harder it is for those in charge to ignore. Who acts: petition, people, more people. 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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 (petition, people, more people), 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:14 # text = A petition is a list of names of people asking for a change; the more people sign it, the harder it is for those in charge to ignore. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sign sign VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 parataxis _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 22 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 ignore ignore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a petition | a list | | | | of names of people | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | for a change | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sign** | present | the more people | petition | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | | 4 | **is** | present | petition | | | charge | | for those | tree rules | | 5 | **ignore** | to-infinitive | petition *not said here* | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **name** | | | people | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:14`. **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): R6-punct-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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/13/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)