--- title: In 2019 Quebec passed a law stopping some public workers, including… — Guns, school safety and arguments about schools · tree and pragmatics description: In 2019 Quebec passed a law stopping some public workers, including public school teachers, from wearing religious symbols at work; it has been challenged in court. Who acts: Quebec, law. 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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 (Quebec, law), 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:17 # text = In 2019 Quebec passed a law stopping some public workers, including public school teachers, from wearing religious symbols at work; it has been challenged in court. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 3 Quebec Quebec PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 stopping stop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 9 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 including include ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 from from SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 19 religious religious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 symbols symbol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 challenged challenge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | Quebec | a law | | 2019 | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent law=Theme in 2019=Destination | | 2 | **stop** | gerund | a law *not said here* | some public workers | | | | include school teachers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality worker=Eventuality | | 3 | **wear** | gerund | a law *not said here* | religious symbols | | work | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent symbol=Source | | 4 | **challenge** | present · perfect · passive | | work | | court | | | tree rules | 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:17`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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