Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 12
Peace talks can take months or years, and each side often says the other broke a ceasefire first.
Who acts: Peace talks, side, other · What happens: take, say, break · To what, where: ceasefire · 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 (Peace talks, side, other), 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 | Peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talks | compound |
| 2 | talks | talk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 years | cc |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 months | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 says | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 side | det |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 says | advmod |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ceasefire | det |
| 18 | ceasefire | ceasefire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | obj |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 broke | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | Peace talks | month | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | each side | often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | break | past | the other | a ceasefire | first property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ceasefire=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:12.
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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