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title: Greta Thunberg began a school strike outside Sweden's parliament in… — Climate: hot summers and hot arguments · tree and pragmatics
description: Greta Thunberg began a school strike outside Sweden's parliament in 2018, and millions of young people joined climate strikes, it was reported. Who acts: Greta, millions. A sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Climate: hot summers and hot arguments, sentence 19

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Greta Thunberg began a school strike outside Sweden's parliament in 2018, and millions of young people joined climate strikes, it was reported.

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**Who acts:** Greta, millions · **What happens:** begin, join, report · **To what, where:** school strike, 2018, climate strikes, strike

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greta, millions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:19
# text = Greta Thunberg began a school strike outside Sweden's parliament in 2018, and millions of young people joined climate strikes, it was reported.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Greta	Greta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Thunberg	Thunberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	strikes	strike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Greta | a school strike |  | 2018 |  | outside Sweden's parliament | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Eventuality |
| 2 | **join** | past | millions of young people | climate strikes |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Patient |
| 3 | **report** | past · passive |  | strike |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |

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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.

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**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:021-climate-hot-summers-and-hot-arguments.lesson:19`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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