Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 21
Real wars last years and hurt families; soldiers who come home often say war is nothing like games or films.
Who acts: Real wars, soldiers, war · What happens: last, hurt, come, say, be · To what, where: families, nothing · 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 (Real wars, soldiers, 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wars | amod |
| 2 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 last | nsubj |
| 3 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 last | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hurt | cc |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 last | conj |
| 7 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hurt | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 soldiers | punct |
| 9 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 say | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 soldiers | acl:relcl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 last | parataxis |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nothing | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 nothing | cop |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 say | ccomp |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 games | case |
| 19 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 nothing | nmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 films | cc |
| 21 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 games | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wars | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | present | Real wars | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurt | present | Real wars not said here | families | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | present | soldiers | home, often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | soldiers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | war | nothing | like games or films | 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:21.
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. 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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