Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 9
The United Nations was founded in 1945 with 51 countries and now has 193; in its Security Council five countries can each block any decision alone, called a veto, which many people criticise, and it often cannot stop wars.
Who acts: Council five countries, decision, many people, power · What happens: found, have, block, call, criticise, not stop · To what, where: United Nations, 1945, 193, decision, veto, wars · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history 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 (Council five countries, decision, many people, power), 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 | 3 Nations | det |
| 2 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 3 Nations | compound |
| 3 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 founded | aux:pass |
| 5 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1945 | case |
| 7 | 1945 | 1945 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 founded | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 countries | case |
| 9 | 51 | 51 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 countries | nummod |
| 10 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 founded | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 has | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | _ | 13 has | advmod |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 founded | conj |
| 14 | 193 | 193 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 has | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 block | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 countries | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Council | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Security | Security | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Council | compound |
| 19 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 countries | compound |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 countries | nummod |
| 21 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 block | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 block | aux |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 block | nsubj |
| 24 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 founded | parataxis |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 decision | det |
| 26 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 block | obj |
| 27 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 24 block | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 called | punct |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 decision | acl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 veto | det |
| 31 | veto | veto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 called | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 criticise | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 criticise | obj |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 people | amod |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 criticise | nsubj |
| 36 | criticise | criticise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 veto | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 stop | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 stop | cc |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 stop | nsubj |
| 40 | often | often | ADV | _ | 43 stop | advmod |
| 41 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 stop | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 stop | advmod |
| 43 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 founded | conj |
| 44 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 stop | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 founded | 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 | found | past · passive | the United Nations | 1945 | with 51 countries | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with country=Instrument | |||
| 2 | have | present | 193 | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 193=Patient | ||||
| 3 | block | can | Council five countries | any decision | alone property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer decision=Theme | |||
| 4 | call | participle | any decision not said here | a veto | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent veto=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | criticise | present | many people | a veto | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not stop | can | power | wars | often property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality |
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:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson:9.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/9/