Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 16
Wars can end: peace treaties have been signed, and countries that once fought each other are friends now.
Who acts: Wars, countries · What happens: end, sign, fight, be · To what, where: peace treaties, each, friends
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 (Wars, countries), 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 | Wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 end | aux |
| 3 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 signed | punct |
| 5 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treaties | compound |
| 6 | treaties | treaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 signed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 signed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 signed | aux:pass |
| 9 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 end | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 friends | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 friends | cc |
| 12 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 friends | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fought | nsubj |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 fought | advmod |
| 15 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 countries | acl:relcl |
| 16 | each | each | PRON | PronType=Tot | 15 fought | obj |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 each | fixed |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 friends | cop |
| 19 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 signed | conj |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 friends | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | 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 | end | can | Wars | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sign | present · perfect · passive | peace treaties | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | fight | past | countries | each | once property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | is a | present | countries | friends | now | tree rules |
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:16.
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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