Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 6
After the Second World War, countries built the United Nations so they could talk instead of fight.
Who acts: countries · What happens: build, talk · To what, where: United Nations
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 War | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 War | det |
| 3 | Second | Second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 War | amod |
| 4 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 War | compound |
| 5 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 War | punct |
| 7 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 built | nsubj |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Nations | det |
| 10 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 11 Nations | compound |
| 11 | Nations | Nations | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 built | obj |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 15 talk | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 talk | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 talk | aux |
| 15 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 built | advcl |
| 16 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 18 fight | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 instead | fixed |
| 18 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 talk | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 built | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | countries | the United Nations | after the Second World War | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nations=Product | |||
| 2 | talk | could | countries = country | instead fight | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:6.
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): R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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