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title: Young people such as Greta Thunberg, a Swedish girl who missed schoo… — The environment · tree and pragmatics
description: Young people such as Greta Thunberg, a Swedish girl who missed school on Fridays to protest, have spoken up about the environment; people disagree about which ways of protesting are right. Who acts: Swedish girl, Young people, people, ways. A sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion 
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# The environment, sentence 17

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Young people such as Greta Thunberg, a Swedish girl who missed school on Fridays to protest, have spoken up about the environment; people disagree about which ways of protesting are right.

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**Who acts:** Swedish girl, Young people, people, ways · **What happens:** miss, protest, speak up, disagree, be · **To what, where:** school

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion ethics 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 (Swedish girl, Young people, people, ways), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:17
# text = Young people such as Greta Thunberg, a Swedish girl who missed school on Fridays to protest, have spoken up about the environment; people disagree about which ways of protesting are right.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 047-the-environment.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 ×2
1	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	Greta	Greta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Thunberg	Thunberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Swedish	Swedish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Fridays	Friday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	protest	protest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	environment	environment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	30	det	_	_
30	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	protesting	protest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | past | a Swedish girl | school |  |  | friday |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer school=Stimulus |
| 2 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive | a Swedish girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speak up** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Young people such Greta |  |  |  |  | about the environment | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about environment=Topic |
| 4 | **disagree** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **protest** *speech: disagree* | gerund | which ways *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | which ways |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:17`.

**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 ×2. **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/).

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