Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 7
NATO is a different thing: a group of North American and European countries that promise to defend each other.
Who acts: NATO, countries · What happens: be, promise, defend · To what, where: different thing, each
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 (NATO, 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 | NATO | NATO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 group | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 group | det |
| 8 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 American | case |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 American | compound |
| 11 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 group | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 countries | cc |
| 13 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 American | conj |
| 14 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 American | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 promise | nsubj |
| 16 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 countries | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 defend | mark |
| 18 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 promise | xcomp |
| 19 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 18 defend | obj |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 each | fixed |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | 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 | is a | present | NATO | a different thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | countries | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | defend not said to happen | to-infinitive | countries not said here | each | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary |
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:7.
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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