Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 2
Countries quarrel over land, power, money, fear and old grudges.
Who acts: Countries · What happens: quarrel
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 (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 | Countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 quarrel | nsubj |
| 2 | quarrel | quarrel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 land | case |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quarrel | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 power | punct |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 land | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 money | punct |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 land | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fear | punct |
| 10 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 land | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grudges | cc |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grudges | amod |
| 13 | grudges | grudge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 land | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quarrel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarrel | present | Countries | over land and power and money and fear and old grudges | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over land=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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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