--- title: As widely reported, Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics description: As widely reported, Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate in 2018 at 15, and millions of young people later joined climate strikes. Who acts: Greta, millions. 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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 (Greta, millions), 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:8 # text = As widely reported, Greta Thunberg began a school strike for climate in 2018 at 15, and millions of young people later joined climate strikes. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 widely widely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Greta Greta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 Thunberg Thunberg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 strike strike NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 2018 2018 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 strikes strike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | participle | Greta *not said here* | | | | | widely *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **begin** | past | Greta | a school strike | | 2018 | | for climate; at 15 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Eventuality | | 3 | **join** | past | millions of young people | climate strikes | | | | late *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Patient | 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:8`. **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): R2-punct-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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/7/) - next →: [Protests, petitions and young activists, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/38-protests-petitions-and-young-activists/)