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title: As widely reported, Malala Yousafzai spoke up for girls' education i… — Protests, petitions and young activists · tree and pragmatics
description: As widely reported, Malala Yousafzai spoke up for girls' education in Pakistan, was attacked by the Taliban in 2012, survived, and won the Nobel Peace Prize at 17. Who acts: Malala, Taliban, girls. A sentence of the lesson «Protests, petitions and young activists» of the politics course of Mova's pr
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# Protests, petitions and young activists, sentence 9

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As widely reported, Malala Yousafzai spoke up for girls' education in Pakistan, was attacked by the Taliban in 2012, survived, and won the Nobel Peace Prize at 17.

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**Who acts:** Malala, Taliban, girls · **What happens:** report, speak up, attack, survive, win, educate · **To what, where:** 2012, Nobel Peace Prize, 17, Pakistan

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Protests, petitions and young activists» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malala, Taliban, girls), 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:9
# text = As widely reported, Malala Yousafzai spoke up for girls' education in Pakistan, was attacked by the Taliban in 2012, survived, and won the Nobel Peace Prize at 17.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×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	Malala	Malala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Yousafzai	Yousafzai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	attacked	attack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Taliban	Taliban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	Nobel	Nobel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	Peace	Peace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Prize	Prize	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | participle | Malala *not said here* |  |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speak up** *speech: other* | past | Malala |  |  |  |  | for girls's education in Pakistan | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **attack** | past · passive | the Taliban |  |  | 2012 |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **survive** | past | Malala *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **win** | past | Malala *not said here* | the Nobel Peace Prize |  | 17 |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent prize=Theme at 17=Asset |
| 6 | **educate** |  | girls |  |  | Pakistan |  |  | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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.

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**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): R6-punct-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.

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