Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 4
A ceasefire is like both teams agreeing to stop the match for a while: it is a pause, not the final score.
Who acts: ceasefire, teams · What happens: be, agree, stop · To what, where: match, pause
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 (ceasefire, teams), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ceasefire | det |
| 2 | ceasefire | ceasefire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 agreeing | case |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 teams | det |
| 6 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 agreeing | nsubj |
| 7 | agreeing | agree | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 is | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stop | mark |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 agreeing | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 match | det |
| 11 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stop | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 while | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 while | det |
| 14 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stop | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 pause | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pause | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pause | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pause | det |
| 19 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 score | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 score | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 score | det |
| 23 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 score | amod |
| 24 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pause | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a ceasefire | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | gerund | both teams | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | both teams not said here | the match | while | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality match=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | is a | present | ceasefire | a pause and the final score | 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:4.
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 ×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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