Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 16

Some say countries such as India or African nations should get permanent seats; others say more vetoes would block even more; changing the rules needs the permanent members to agree.

Who acts: Some, countries, others, more vetoes, changing, permanent members · What happens: say, get, block, change, need, agree · To what, where: permanent seats, more, rules, permanent members · 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 (Some, countries, others, more vetoes), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	nsubj
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	6 India	case
5	as	as	ADP	_	4 such	fixed
6	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 countries	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nations	cc
8	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nations	amod
9	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 India	conj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
12	permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seats	amod
13	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 vetoes	amod
18	vetoes	veto	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 block	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 block	aux
20	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	ccomp
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 block	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 needs	punct
24	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 needs	csubj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rules	det
26	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 changing	obj
27	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 members	det
29	permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 members	amod
30	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 needs	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 agree	mark
32	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 needs	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	should	countries such India or African nations	permanent seats	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seat=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	others		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	block	would	more vetoes	more	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer more=Theme
5	change	gerund		the rules	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
6	need	present	changing	the permanent members	tree rules
7	agree speech: agree not said to happen	to-infinitive	the permanent members not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: 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:16.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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