--- title: As widely reported, after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida in… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics description: As widely reported, after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida in 2018, students organised the March for Our Lives to ask for stricter gun laws, and other Americans disagreed with what they asked for. Who acts: students, other Americans, 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 (students, other Americans, Americans), 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:10 # text = As widely reported, after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida in 2018, students organised the March for Our Lives to ask for stricter gun laws, and other Americans disagreed with what they asked for. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 widely widely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 7 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 shooting shooting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Parkland Parkland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 2018 2018 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 students student NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 organised organise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 Lives life PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 stricter strict ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 27 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 Americans American PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 disagreed disagree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 obl _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 37 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | participle | students *not said here* | | | | after a school shooting in Parkland Florida in 2018 | widely *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **organise** | past | students | | | | march | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | students *not said here* | | | | | for stricter gun laws | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **disagree** | past | other Americans | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with what=Co-Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Americans *= american* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:10`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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