--- title: In many US school districts parents and school boards have argued ab… — Guns, school safety and arguments about schools · tree and pragmatics description: In many US school districts parents and school boards have argued about removing some library books; some call it checking books for age, others call it banning. Who acts: parents, some, others. 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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 (parents, some, others), 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:15 # text = In many US school districts parents and school boards have argued about removing some library books; some call it checking books for age, others call it banning. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod 3 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound 4 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 districts district NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 6 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 boards board NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 12 about about SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 removing remove VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 15 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 19 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 checking check VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 xcomp _ _ 22 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 banning ban VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · perfect | parents and school boards | many US school districts | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **remove** | gerund | parents and school boards *not said here* | some library books | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | | 3 | **call** | present | some | door | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **check** | gerund | some *not said here* | books | | | for age | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent book=Theme for age=Attribute | | 5 | **call** | present | others | door | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ban** | gerund | others *not said here* | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | 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:15`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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