Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 20
The news shows the most frightening things from anywhere in the world, so a war can feel close even when it is very far away.
Who acts: news, war · What happens: show, feel, be · To what, where: frightening things, world
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 (news, war), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 things | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 frightening | advmod |
| 6 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 9 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 world | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feel | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 feel | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 war | det |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feel | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 feel | aux |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shows | parataxis |
| 19 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 when | advmod |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 away | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 away | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 away | cop |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 far | advmod |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 away | advmod |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 feel | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the news | the frightening things | the world | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | |||
| 2 | feel | can | a war | close property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | war | away, far property | 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:20.
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): R7-rel-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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