Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 10
Most quarrels between countries are settled by diplomacy, which means talking and making deals.
Who acts: diplomacy · What happens: settle, mean, talk, make · To what, where: Most quarrels, deals · 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 (diplomacy), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 quarrels | amod |
| 2 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 countries | case |
| 4 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 quarrels | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 settled | aux:pass |
| 6 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 diplomacy | case |
| 8 | diplomacy | diplomacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 settled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 diplomacy | acl:relcl |
| 12 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 means | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 making | cc |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 talking | conj |
| 15 | deals | deal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 making | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 settled | 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 | settle | present · passive | diplomacy | Most quarrels between countries | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme subject=Location | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | diplomacy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | make | gerund | deals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset deal=Product |
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:10.
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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