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title: In the UK most guns are tightly controlled and most police officers… — Guns, school safety and arguments about schools · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK most guns are tightly controlled and most police officers do not carry guns. Who acts: most police officers. A sentence of the lesson «Guns, school safety and arguments about schools» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 12

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In the UK most guns are tightly controlled and most police officers do not carry guns.

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**Who acts:** most police officers · **What happens:** control, not carry · **To what, where:** most guns, guns

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Guns, school safety and arguments about schools» 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 (most police officers), 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:12
# text = In the UK most guns are tightly controlled and most police officers do not carry guns.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
11	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **control** | present · passive |  | most guns |  |  |  | the UK *obl*; tightly *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **carry** | present · do-support | most police officers | guns |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme |

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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:022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.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 ×2, 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/).

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