Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 18
NATO members promise that an attack on one counts as an attack on all; Finland joined in 2023 and Sweden in 2024, news reports said.
Who acts: NATO members, attack, Finland, news reports · What happens: promise, count, join, say · 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 (NATO members, attack, Finland, news reports), 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 | NATO | NATO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 members | compound |
| 2 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 promise | nsubj |
| 3 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 counts | mark |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 attack | det |
| 6 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 counts | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 attack | nmod |
| 9 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 promise | ccomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 attack | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 attack | det |
| 12 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 counts | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 attack | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 joined | punct |
| 16 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 joined | nsubj |
| 17 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promise | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 2023 | case |
| 19 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 joined | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Sweden | cc |
| 21 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 2023 | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 2024 | case |
| 23 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 joined | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 2024 | punct |
| 25 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reports | compound |
| 26 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 joined | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | NATO members | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | count | present | a attack on one | as a attack on all | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as attack=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | join | past | Finland | in 2024; in 2023 and Sweden | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 2023=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | news reports | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:18.
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): R6-punct-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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