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title: In 2020 footballer Marcus Rashford, who had free school meals as a b… — Guns, school safety and arguments about schools · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2020 footballer Marcus Rashford, who had free school meals as a boy, campaigned for food help for poorer children in the holidays, and the UK government changed its plans, news reports said. Who acts: Marcus, UK government, news reports, help. A sentence of the lesson «Guns, school safety and arg
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# Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 16

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In 2020 footballer Marcus Rashford, who had free school meals as a boy, campaigned for food help for poorer children in the holidays, and the UK government changed its plans, news reports said.

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**Who acts:** Marcus, UK government, news reports, help · **What happens:** have, campaign, change, say, plan · **To what, where:** free school meals, 2020, plans · **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 (Marcus, UK government, news reports, help), 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:16
# text = In 2020 footballer Marcus Rashford, who had free school meals as a boy, campaigned for food help for poorer children in the holidays, and the UK government changed its plans, 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): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
3	footballer	footballer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Marcus	Marcus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
5	Rashford	Rashford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	campaigned	campaign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	poorer	poor	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	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 | **have** | past | Marcus  footballer | free school meals |  |  |  | as a boy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 2 | **campaign** | past | Marcus  footballer |  |  | 2020 |  | for food help for poorer children in the holidays | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | past | the UK government | help's plans |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | news reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **plan** |  | help |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R5-strong ×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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