Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 8
Words from the scenes: «back in my day» = when I was young; «kiddo» = kid; «sound» (Liverpool) = good, fine, «end of» = no more arguing; «mid» = so-so, «it's giving» = it looks like; «aye» (Scotland) = yes, «wee» = small; «I'm literally dead» = that's too funny or shocking.
Who acts: Words, I, end, it, that · What happens: «, be, sound, argue, give, look · To what, where: mid », », wee », dead » · 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 (Words, I, end, it), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 « | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 scenes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 scenes | det |
| 4 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Words | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 6 | « | « | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 « | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 day | nmod:poss |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 back | obl |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 young | punct |
| 12 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 16 young | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 young | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 young | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 young | cop |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 « | parataxis |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 » | punct |
| 18 | « | « | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 » | amod |
| 19 | kiddo | kiddo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 » | compound |
| 20 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 young | obl |
| 21 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 22 kid | punct |
| 22 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 » | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 sound | punct |
| 24 | « | « | CCONJ | _ | 25 sound | cc |
| 25 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 « | parataxis |
| 26 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sound | obj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 Liverpool | punct |
| 28 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 » | parataxis |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 Liverpool | punct |
| 30 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 36 end | punct |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 end | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fine | punct |
| 33 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 good | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fine | punct |
| 35 | « | « | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 end | amod |
| 36 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 » | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 » | case |
| 38 | » | » | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 end | nmod |
| 39 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 42 arguing | punct |
| 40 | no | no | ADV | _ | 41 more | advmod |
| 41 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 42 arguing | advmod |
| 42 | arguing | argue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 sound | conj |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 » | punct |
| 44 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 45 mid | punct |
| 45 | mid | mid | X | _ | 46 » | compound |
| 46 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 « | obl |
| 47 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 59 looks | punct |
| 48 | so | so | ADV | _ | 59 looks | advmod |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 so | punct |
| 50 | so | so | ADV | _ | 59 looks | advmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 so | punct |
| 52 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 55 giving | punct |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 giving | nsubj |
| 54 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 giving | aux |
| 55 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 59 looks | advcl |
| 56 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 55 giving | punct |
| 57 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 55 giving | punct |
| 58 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 looks | nsubj |
| 59 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 « | conj |
| 60 | like | like | ADP | _ | 63 aye | case |
| 61 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 62 « | punct |
| 62 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 63 aye | punct |
| 63 | aye | aye | ADV | Typo=Yes | 59 looks | obl |
| 64 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 aye | goeswith |
| 65 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 66 Scotland | punct |
| 66 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 aye | appos |
| 67 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 66 Scotland | punct |
| 68 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 59 looks | punct |
| 69 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 59 looks | discourse |
| 70 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 73 » | punct |
| 71 | « | « | CCONJ | _ | 73 » | cc |
| 72 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 » | amod |
| 73 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 looks | obj |
| 74 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 75 small | punct |
| 75 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 73 » | amod |
| 76 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 77 « | punct |
| 77 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 59 looks | punct |
| 78 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 82 » | nsubj |
| 79 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 82 » | cop |
| 80 | literally | literally | ADV | _ | 81 dead | advmod |
| 81 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 82 » | amod |
| 82 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 looks | obl:unmarked |
| 83 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 87 funny | punct |
| 84 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 87 funny | nsubj |
| 85 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 87 funny | cop |
| 86 | too | too | ADV | _ | 87 funny | advmod |
| 87 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 looks | parataxis |
| 88 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 89 shocking | cc |
| 89 | shocking | shocking | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 87 funny | conj |
| 90 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Words | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | infinitive | Words from the scenes | mid » | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | « kiddo » and kid obl; young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sound in a quote | infinitive | » | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location »=Theme | |||||
| 4 | argue speech: disagree | gerund | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | give in a quote | present · progressive | end | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | look | present | it | wee » | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme »=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | I | dead » | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | present | that | funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | be | that not said here | 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:8.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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