--- title: When people want something changed, they can protest peacefully, sig… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: When people want something changed, they can protest peacefully, sign a petition, or stop work together in a strike. Who acts: people, something. 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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 (people, something), 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:4 # text = When people want something changed, they can protest peacefully, sign a petition, or stop work together in a strike. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 protest protest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 peacefully peacefully ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 sign sign VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 18 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 strike strike NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **want** | present | people | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **change** *not said to happen* | participle | something *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | can | people | | | | | peacefully *property* | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sign** | infinitive | people *not said here* | a petition | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent petition=Destination | | 5 | **stop** | infinitive | people *not said here* | work | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality work=Eventuality | 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:4`. **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, 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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/3/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)