Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 17

Children are never sent to fight in a war in countries like ours; a playground claim that "we'll all be called up" is a rumour.

Who acts: Children, playground claim · What happens: not send, fight, call up, be · To what, where: Children, war, we, rumour

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 (Children, playground claim), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 sent	advmod
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fight	mark
6	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 war	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 war	det
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fight	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 countries	case
11	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fight	obl
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 ours	case
13	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 countries	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 claim	det
16	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 claim	compound
17	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rumour	nsubj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 called	mark
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 called	nsubj
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 called	aux
22	all	all	ADV	_	24 called	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 called	aux:pass
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 claim	acl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 called	compound:prt
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 rumour	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 rumour	det
29	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not send	present · passive		Children			tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	Children not said here		a war	in countries like ours	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call up speech: assert in a quote	future · passive		we		all property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	is a	present	a playground claim	a rumour			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: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): R6-punct-agree ×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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