Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 11
When thousands of people flee a war, they are called refugees; they stay in camps, schools and other people's homes, and charities help them.
Who acts: thousands, charities · What happens: flee, call, stay, help · To what, where: war, thousands, camps, wars · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» of the adult life 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 (thousands, charities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 flee | advmod |
| 2 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flee | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 people | case |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thousands | nmod |
| 5 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 war | det |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flee | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flee | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stay | nsubj |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 camps | case |
| 17 | camps | camp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stay | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 schools | punct |
| 19 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 camps | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 homes | cc |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 people | amod |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 homes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 people | case |
| 24 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 camps | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 help | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 help | cc |
| 27 | charities | charity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 help | nsubj |
| 28 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 help | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
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 | flee | present | thousands of people | a war | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · passive | thousands = thousand | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | stay | present | thousands = thousand | camps and schools and other people's homes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location | ||||
| 4 | help | present | charities | wars = war | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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, 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:adult-life:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:11.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.
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