--- title: Some say young activists are told what to say by adults; others say… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics description: Some say young activists are told what to say by adults; others say young people think for themselves; both can be partly true. Who acts: Some, young activists, others, young people. 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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 (Some, young activists, others, young people), 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:11 # text = Some say young activists are told what to say by adults; others say young people think for themselves; both can be partly true. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 activists activist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 25 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 24 partly partly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | young activists | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | young activists *not said here* | | | | | by adults | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | young people | | | | | for people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | can | both | | | | | partly, true *property* | tree rules | 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:11`. **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 ×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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