--- title: Smashing windows or hurting people is against the law even when the… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics description: Smashing windows or hurting people is against the law even when the cause is good, and children go to marches only with a trusted adult and a safety plan. Who acts: Smashing, cause, children. 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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 (Smashing, cause, children), 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:4 # text = Smashing windows or hurting people is against the law even when the cause is good, and children go to marches only with a trusted adult and a safety plan. # 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 Smashing smash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 hurting hurt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 against against ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 marches march NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smash** | gerund | | windows | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme | | 2 | **hurt** | gerund | | people | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | Smashing | | | | | against the law | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the cause | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | present | children | | | marches | | with a trusted adult and a safety plan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to march=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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:4`. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/3/) - next →: [Protests, petitions and young activists, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/)