--- title: A strike is when workers stop working together to push for better pa… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: A strike is when workers stop working together to push for better pay or conditions, and it is legal if they follow the rules. Who acts: workers, strike. 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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 (workers, strike), 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:15 # text = A strike is when workers stop working together to push for better pay or conditions, and it is legal if they follow the rules. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 strike strike NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj 6 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 7 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 conditions condition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 legal legal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | workers | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | a strike | | | | | together, work *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **push** | to-infinitive | a strike *not said here* | | | | | for better pay or conditions | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | strike | | | | | legal *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **follow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | workers *= worker* | the rules | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | 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:15`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)