Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 14
General Assembly votes show what most of the world thinks but usually cannot force a country to obey.
Who acts: Assembly votes, most, country · What happens: show, think, not force, not obey · To what, where: country · 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 (Assembly votes, most, country), 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 | General | General | PROPN | _ | 2 Assembly | compound |
| 2 | Assembly | Assembly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 votes | compound |
| 3 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 thinks | obj |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 thinks | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 most | nmod |
| 10 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | ccomp |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 force | cc |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 force | advmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 force | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 force | advmod |
| 15 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thinks | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 force | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 obey | mark |
| 19 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 force | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Assembly votes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | most of the world | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not force | can | most of the world not said here | a country | usually property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent country=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | not obey | to-infinitive | a country not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:14.
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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