--- title: A petition is a written request signed by many people, and on some g… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics description: A petition is a written request signed by many people, and on some governments' petition websites a big petition can get a reply or a debate in parliament. Who acts: petition, big petition. 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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 (petition, big petition), 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:6 # text = A petition is a written request signed by many people, and on some governments' petition websites a big petition can get a reply or a debate in parliament. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 signed sign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:agent _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 13 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod:poss _ _ 16 ' 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 websites website NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 debate debate NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 parliament parliament NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a petition | a written request | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sign** | participle | | a written request *not said here* | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | can | a big petition | a reply or a debate | | some governments's petition websites | | in parliament | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent reply=Theme on website=Source | 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:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/4/) - next →: [Protests, petitions and young activists, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/)