--- title: An MP represents everyone in their area, including children who cann… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics description: An MP represents everyone in their area, including children who cannot vote yet, and writing politely is a real way to be heard. Who acts: MP, 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 (MP, 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:7 # text = An MP represents everyone in their area, including children who cannot vote yet, and writing politely is a real way to be heard. # 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 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 MP mp NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 represents represent VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 including include ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 yet yet ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 writing write VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:csubj 19 politely politely ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **represent** | present | a MP | everyone | | | | include children; in people's area | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot everyone=Theme in area=Attribute | | 2 | **not** **vote** | can | children | | | | yet | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **write** | gerund | | | | | | politely *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a real way | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | a MP *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | 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:7`. **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. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/6/) - next →: [Protests, petitions and young activists, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/)