--- title: Picture the playground: if lots of kids sign a paper asking for a ne… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics description: Picture the playground: if lots of kids sign a paper asking for a new bench and take it to the head, she is more likely to listen than if one kid moans alone; that is how a petition works, only bigger. Who acts: you, lots, paper, she. 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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 (you, lots, paper, she), 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:1 # text = Picture the playground: if lots of kids sign a paper asking for a new bench and take it to the head, she is more likely to listen than if one kid moans alone; that is how a petition works, only bigger. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 sign sign VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 27 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 than than SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 moans moan VERB VBZ Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 35 alone alone ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 only only ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 advcl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | the playground | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent playground=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **sign** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | lots of kids | a paper | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Destination | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | a paper *not said here* | | | | | for a new bench | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | present | lots of kids *not said here* | paper | | the head | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to head=Destination | | 5 | **is** | present | she | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **listen** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **moan** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one kid | | | | | alone *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | present | that | | | | | how *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **work** | present | a petition | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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