Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 17
UN peacekeepers wear blue helmets and help keep a ceasefire without taking sides; Ireland has sent peacekeepers for decades, including to Lebanon.
Who acts: UN peacekeepers, Ireland · What happens: wear, help, keep, take, send · To what, where: blue helmets, ceasefire, sides, peacekeepers
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 (UN peacekeepers, Ireland), 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 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 peacekeepers | compound |
| 2 | peacekeepers | peacekeeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wear | nsubj |
| 3 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 helmets | amod |
| 5 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wear | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 help | cc |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wear | conj |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ceasefire | det |
| 10 | ceasefire | ceasefire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obj |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 taking | mark |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 keep | advcl |
| 13 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 taking | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 15 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sent | aux |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wear | parataxis |
| 18 | peacekeepers | peacekeeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sent | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 decades | case |
| 20 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sent | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Lebanon | punct |
| 22 | including | include | ADP | _ | 24 Lebanon | case |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Lebanon | case |
| 24 | Lebanon | Lebanon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 decades | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wear | 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 | wear | present | UN peacekeepers | blue helmets | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | present | UN peacekeepers not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | UN peacekeepers not said here | a ceasefire | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceasefire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | UN peacekeepers not said here | sides | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 5 | send | present · perfect | Ireland | peacekeepers | decade | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacekeeper=Theme |
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:17.
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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