Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 1
Unlike a playground scrap, many ordinary people, called civilians, lose their homes, their safety or their lives.
Who acts: many ordinary people · What happens: call, lose · To what, where: civilians, homes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (many ordinary people), 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 | Unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 4 scrap | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 scrap | det |
| 3 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scrap | compound |
| 4 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lose | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scrap | punct |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 7 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lose | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 civilians | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 civilians | acl |
| 11 | civilians | civilian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 people | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lose | punct |
| 13 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 homes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lose | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 safety | punct |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 safety | nmod:poss |
| 18 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 homes | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 lives | cc |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lives | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 safety | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | civilians not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lose | present | many ordinary people | people's homes and people's safety or people's lives | unlike a playground scrap | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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:politics:023-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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