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title: Many schools in Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and parts of… — Guns, school safety and arguments about schools · tree and pragmatics
description: Many schools in Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and parts of the US and Canada have banned or limited phones during the school day, news reports said. Who acts: Many schools, news reports. A sentence of the lesson «Guns, school safety and arguments about schools» of the politics course of Mo
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# Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 14

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Many schools in Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and parts of the US and Canada have banned or limited phones during the school day, news reports said.

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**Who acts:** Many schools, news reports · **What happens:** ban, say · **To what, where:** limited phones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many schools, news reports), 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:14
# text = Many schools in Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and parts of the US and Canada have banned or limited phones during the school day, news reports said.
# 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): no change
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
12	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	ccomp	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	during	during	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	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 | **ban** | present · perfect | Many schools in Ireland and the UK and Australia and New Zealand and parts of the US and Canada | limited phones |  |  | day |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer phone=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | news reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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**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): no change. **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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