--- title: Some call 6 January a dangerous attack on democracy; others say most… — US elections and the president, as reported · tree and pragmatics description: Some call 6 January a dangerous attack on democracy; others say most people there were protesters who felt unheard; it was reported that in January 2025 President Trump pardoned most of those charged, which means he cancelled their punishment. Who acts: Some, others, most people, protesters. 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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 (Some, others, most people, protesters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:16 # text = Some call 6 January a dangerous attack on democracy; others say most people there were protesters who felt unheard; it was reported that in January 2025 President Trump pardoned most of those charged, which means he cancelled their punishment. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 parataxis _ _ 3 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 democracy democracy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 13 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 protesters protester NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 ccomp _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 unheard unheard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 parataxis _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 28 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nmod:unmarked _ _ 29 President President PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:desc _ _ 30 Trump Trump PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 pardoned pardon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 32 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 32 nmod _ _ 35 charged charge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 cancelled cancel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 ccomp _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Some | a dangerous attack on democracy | | | january | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | past | most people | protesters | | there | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | past | protesters | | | | | unheard *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **report** | past · passive | | crowd | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **pardon** | past | Trump President | most of those | | | january | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme | | 7 | **charge** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **cancel** | past | Trump | people's punishment | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **punish** | | people | | | | | | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:16`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. 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