Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 5
Peace talks about land, safety and justice can take years, and a smile for the cameras does not mean a deal.
Who acts: Peace talks, smile · What happens: take, not mean · To what, where: deal
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 (Peace talks, smile), 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 | Peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talks | compound |
| 2 | talks | talk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 land | case |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talks | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 safety | punct |
| 6 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 land | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 justice | cc |
| 8 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 safety | conj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mean | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mean | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 smile | det |
| 15 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mean | nsubj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 cameras | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cameras | det |
| 18 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 smile | nmod |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 mean | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 mean | advmod |
| 21 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 deal | det |
| 23 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mean | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | Peace talks about land and safety and justice | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not mean | present · do-support | a smile for the cameras | a deal | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Topic |
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:5.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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