--- title: Young people have started big things: Greta Thunberg's school strike… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics description: Young people have started big things: Greta Thunberg's school strike for climate, Malala Yousafzai speaking up for girls' education, students organising the March for Our Lives; many admire them and many disagree with what they ask for. Who acts: Young people, Malala, students, many. 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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 (Young people, Malala, students, many), 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:2 # text = Young people have started big things: Greta Thunberg's school strike for climate, Malala Yousafzai speaking up for girls' education, students organising the March for Our Lives; many admire them and many disagree with what they ask 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 1 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 started start VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 Greta Greta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 9 Thunberg Thunberg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 11 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 strike strike NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 acl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Malala Malala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 17 Yousafzai Yousafzai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 ' 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 students student NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 organising organise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 Lives life PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 nsubj _ _ 34 admire admire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 nsubj _ _ 38 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 obl _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 42 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present · perfect | Young people | big things | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 2 | **speak up** *speech: other* | gerund | Malala *not said here* | | | | | for girls's education and students | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **organise** | gerund | students *not said here* | | | | march | | tree rules | | 4 | **admire** | infinitive | many | people | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 5 | **disagree** | present | many | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with what=Co-Agent | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | people | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **strike** | | Greta | | | | | for climate | nom strike «act intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl | | 8 | **educate** | | girls | | | | | | nom education «act transitive»: poss=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:2`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Protests, petitions and young activists, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/1/) - next →: [Protests, petitions and young activists, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/)