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title: Children at a march should stay with a trusted adult, agree a meetin… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics
description: Children at a march should stay with a trusted adult, agree a meeting point, keep a phone charged and leave if it gets too crowded. Who acts: Children, phone. A sentence of the lesson «Protests, petitions and young activists» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 12

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Children at a march should stay with a trusted adult, agree a meeting point, keep a phone charged and leave if it gets too crowded.

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**Who acts:** Children, phone · **What happens:** stay, trust, agree, keep, charge, leave · **To what, where:** meeting point, phone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Protests, petitions and young activists» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, phone), 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:12
# text = Children at a march should stay with a trusted adult, agree a meeting point, keep a phone charged and leave if it gets too crowded.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Children	Children	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	agree	agree	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | should | Children at a march |  |  |  |  | with a trusted adult | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with adult=Location |
| 2 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | Children at a march *not said here* | a meeting point |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent point=Topic |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | Children at a march *not said here* | a phone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **charge** | participle | a phone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **leave** | infinitive | Children at a march *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | phone |  |  |  |  | crowded *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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