Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 0
A war is armed fighting between countries or large armed groups, often lasting years.
Who acts: war · What happens: fight, last
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO» of the politics 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 (war), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 war | det |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fighting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fighting | aux |
| 4 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fighting | amod |
| 5 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 countries | case |
| 7 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fighting | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 groups | cc |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 groups | amod |
| 10 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 groups | amod |
| 11 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 countries | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lasting | punct |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 lasting | advmod |
| 14 | lasting | last | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fighting | conj |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lasting | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fighting | 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 | fight | present · progressive | a war | between countries or large armed groups | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | last | gerund | a war not said here | year | often property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:politics:023-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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