--- title: There are many peaceful ways to ask for change: a protest, where peo… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics description: There are many peaceful ways to ask for change: a protest, where people gather in public with signs, songs and speeches; a petition, a list of names asking for the same thing; and a polite letter to your MP. Who acts: many peaceful ways, people, names. 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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 (many peaceful ways, people, names), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:038-protests-petitions-and-young-activists.lesson:0 # text = There are many peaceful ways to ask for change: a protest, where people gather in public with signs, songs and speeches; a petition, a list of names asking for the same thing; and a polite letter to your MP. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 038-protests-petitions-and-young-activists.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 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 peaceful peaceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 protest protest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gather gather VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 speeches speech NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 MP MP NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | many peaceful ways | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | many peaceful ways *not said here* | | | | | for change | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **gather** | present | people | | | public | | with signs and songs and speeches | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with sign=Co-Patient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | names *not said here* | | | | | for the same thing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **list** | | | names | | | | | nom list «communication 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:038-protests-petitions-and-young-activists.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [School councils and class reps, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/15/) - next →: [Protests, petitions and young activists, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/)