--- title: On climate, some say action must be fast because waiting makes it wo… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics description: On climate, some say action must be fast because waiting makes it worse; others say changes that come too fast can cost jobs and make fuel too expensive. Who acts: some, action, others, changes. 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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, action, others, changes), 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:15 # text = On climate, some say action must be fast because waiting makes it worse; others say changes that come too fast can cost jobs and make fuel too expensive. # 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 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 5 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 nsubj _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 25 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 28 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 too too ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 expensive expensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some | | | climate | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | must | action | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | | action | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **come** | present | changes | | | | | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **cost** | can | changes | jobs | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme job=Value | | 8 | **make** | infinitive | changes *not said here* | fuel | | | | expensive *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuel=Product | 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:15`. **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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