--- title: The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protects a right to keep… — Guns, school safety and arguments about schools · tree and pragmatics description: The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protects a right to keep and bear arms, and Americans argue about what that allows. Who acts: Second Amendment, Americans. 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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 (Second Amendment, Americans), 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:9 # text = The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protects a right to keep and bear arms, and Americans argue about what that allows. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 Amendment amendment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Constitution Constitution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 15 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Americans American PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 23 allows allow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protect** | present | the Second Amendment of the US Constitution | a right | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Beneficiary | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the Second Amendment of the US Constitution *not said here* | a right *not said here* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bear** | infinitive | the Second Amendment of the US Constitution *not said here* | arms | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | | 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Americans | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about what=Topic | | 5 | **allow** | present | | | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 6 | **amend** | | | the US Constitution | | | | | nom amendment «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:9`. **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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