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title: Both sides usually say they want children safe and treated fairly; t… — Guns, school safety and arguments about schools · tree and pragmatics
description: Both sides usually say they want children safe and treated fairly; they disagree about how. Who acts: sides. 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 clause.
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# Guns, school safety and arguments about schools, sentence 4

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Both sides usually say they want children safe and treated fairly; they disagree about how.

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**Who acts:** sides · **What happens:** say, want, treat, disagree · **To what, where:** children · **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 (sides), 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:4
# text = Both sides usually say they want children safe and treated fairly; they disagree about how.
# 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	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | both sides |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **want** | present | sides *= side* | children |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot child=Theme |
| 3 | **treat** | participle | sides *= side* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **disagree** | present | sides *= side* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:4`.

**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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