Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth, sentence 14
NATO is a military alliance of 32 countries in Europe and North America whose members promise to defend each other if attacked; Finland joined in 2023 and Sweden in 2024.
Who acts: NATO, members, Finland · What happens: be, promise, defend, attack, join · To what, where: military alliance, each
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 (NATO, members, Finland), 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 | NATO | NATO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 alliance | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 alliance | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 alliance | det |
| 4 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 alliance | amod |
| 5 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 countries | case |
| 7 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 countries | nummod |
| 8 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 alliance | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Europe | case |
| 10 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 countries | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 America | cc |
| 12 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 America | compound |
| 13 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Europe | conj |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 members | nmod:poss |
| 15 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 promise | nsubj |
| 16 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Europe | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 defend | mark |
| 18 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 promise | xcomp |
| 19 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 18 defend | obj |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 each | fixed |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 attacked | mark |
| 22 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 defend | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 joined | punct |
| 24 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 joined | nsubj |
| 25 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alliance | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 2023 | case |
| 27 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 joined | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Sweden | cc |
| 29 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Finland | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 2024 | case |
| 31 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 joined | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 alliance | 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 | is a | present | NATO | a military alliance | of 32 countries in Europe and North America | tree rules | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | members | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | defend not said to happen | to-infinitive | members not said here | each | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | attack a condition, not said to happen | participle | members not said here | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | join | past | Finland and Sweden | in 2024; in 2023 | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 2023=Theme |
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:14.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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