Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth, sentence 1

The biggest is the United Nations, founded in 1945 after the Second World War, so that countries would argue at a table instead of on a battlefield; it has 193 members and its headquarters is in New York.

Who acts: biggest, countries, battlefield · What happens: be, found, argue, have · To what, where: United Nations, 1945, table, 193 members, New York

This is a sentence of the lesson «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» of the geography 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 (biggest, countries, battlefield), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 biggest	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 Nations	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Nations	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Nations	det
5	United	United	PROPN	_	6 Nations	compound
6	Nations	Nations	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Nations	punct
8	founded	found	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Nations	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1945	case
10	1945	1945	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 founded	obl
11	after	after	ADP	_	15 War	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 War	det
13	Second	Second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 War	amod
14	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 War	compound
15	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 founded	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 argue	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	_	21 argue	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 argue	mark
19	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 argue	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 argue	aux
21	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 founded	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 argue	obl
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	29 battlefield	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 battlefield	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 battlefield	det
29	battlefield	battlefield	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 argue	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 has	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 has	nsubj
32	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 argue	parataxis
33	193	193	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 members	nummod
34	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 has	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 headquarters	cc
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 headquarters	nmod:poss
37	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	Number=Ptan	34 members	conj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 York	cop
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 York	case
40	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 York	amod
41	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 has	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Nations	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the biggest	the United Nations				tree rules
2	found	participle		the United Nations not said here	1945	after the Second World War		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	argue speech: disagree	would	countries		a table		instead a battlefield	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	battlefield	193 members and battlefield's headquarters				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Patient
5	is	present	battlefield not said here		New York			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:geography:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:1.

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 ×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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