--- title: A protest is when people gather to show they want something changed;… — What politics is: deciding things together · tree and pragmatics description: A protest is when people gather to show they want something changed; in many countries peaceful protest is allowed, and people argue about its limits, such as blocking roads. Who acts: protest, 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 (protest, People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:12 # text = A protest is when people gather to show they want something changed; in many countries peaceful protest is allowed, and people argue about its limits, such as blocking roads. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.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 protest protest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gather gather VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 17 peaceful peaceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 protest protest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 25 about about ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 limits limit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 32 case _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 29 fixed _ _ 31 blocking block VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 amod _ _ 32 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a protest | | | | | gather *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | a protest *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **want** | present | People | something | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | | 4 | **change** | participle | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **allow** | present · passive | | peaceful protest | | many countries | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people | | | | | about protest's limits and blocking roads | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about limit=Topic | | 7 | **block** | gerund | | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | 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:politics:001-what-politics-is-deciding-things-together.lesson:12`. **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. 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