--- title: After a mass shooting at Port Arthur in Tasmania in 1996, Australia… — Guns, school safety and arguments about schools · tree and pragmatics description: After a mass shooting at Port Arthur in Tasmania in 1996, Australia agreed strict gun laws, banned many kinds of guns and paid people to hand in hundreds of thousands of them. Who acts: Australia. 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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 (Australia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.lesson:10 # text = After a mass shooting at Port Arthur in Tasmania in 1996, Australia agreed strict gun laws, banned many kinds of guns and paid people to hand in hundreds of thousands of them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 mass mass ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 shooting shooting NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Port Port PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 Arthur Arthur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Tasmania Tasmania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1996 1996 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 strict strict ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 19 banned ban VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 guns gun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 hand hand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 in in ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Australia | strict gun laws | | | after a mass shooting at Port in Tasmania in 1996 | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent law=Topic | | 2 | **ban** | past | Australia *not said here* | many kinds of guns | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer kind=Theme | | 3 | **pay** | past | Australia *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hand in** | to-infinitive | Australia *not said here* | hundreds of thousands of thousands | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=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:politics:022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.lesson:10`. **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): 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. 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