Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 11

A ceasefire is an agreement to stop fighting for a while; it is not the same as a peace deal, and ceasefires sometimes break down.

Who acts: ceasefire, ceasefires · What happens: be, stop, fight, not be, break down · To what, where: agreement

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 (ceasefire, ceasefires), 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 ceasefire	det
2	ceasefire	ceasefire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 agreement	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 agreement	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 agreement	det
5	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 agreement	acl
8	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 while	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 while	det
11	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fighting	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 same	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 same	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 same	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 same	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 same	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 agreement	parataxis
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 deal	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 deal	det
20	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 deal	compound
21	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 same	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 break	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 break	cc
24	ceasefires	ceasefire	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 break	nsubj
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	26 break	advmod
26	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 same	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 break	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 agreement	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a ceasefire	a agreement			tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	fight	gerund			while		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	present	ceasefire			as a peace deal; same property	tree rules
5	break down	present	ceasefires			sometimes property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:11.

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, R8-pos-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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