Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 19

Russia's government says NATO growing towards its borders threatens Russia; NATO members say countries choose freely to join and NATO is only for defence.

Who acts: government, NATO, NATO members, countries · What happens: say, grow, threaten, choose, join, be · To what, where: Russia · 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 (government, NATO, NATO members, countries), 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	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 government	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Russia	case
3	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	NATO	NATO	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 threatens	nsubj
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 NATO	acl
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 borders	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 borders	nmod:poss
9	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 growing	obl
10	threatens	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
11	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 threatens	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
13	NATO	NATO	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 members	compound
14	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
16	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 choose	nsubj
17	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 say	ccomp
18	freely	freely	ADV	_	17 choose	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 join	mark
20	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 choose	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 defence	cc
22	NATO	NATO	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 defence	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 defence	cop
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 defence	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 defence	case
26	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 choose	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Russia's government			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow	gerund	NATO not said here		towards government's borders	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	threaten	present	NATO	Russia		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus russia=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	present	NATO members			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	choose	present	countries		freely property	tree rules
6	join	to-infinitive	countries not said here			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	is	present	NATO		for defence	tree rules

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:19.

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 ×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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