Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 9
A war is armed fighting between countries or large armed groups; civilians are ordinary people who are not soldiers.
Who acts: war, civilians, ordinary people · What happens: be, fight, not be · To what, where: ordinary people, soldiers
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 (war, civilians, ordinary people), 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 war | det |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 armed | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 armed | cop |
| 4 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 armed | advcl |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 countries | case |
| 7 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fighting | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 groups | cc |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 groups | amod |
| 10 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 groups | amod |
| 11 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 countries | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 13 | civilians | civilian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 people | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 people | cop |
| 15 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 armed | parataxis |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 soldiers | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 soldiers | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 soldiers | advmod |
| 20 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 people | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 armed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a war | armed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | a war not said here | between countries or large armed groups | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | civilians | ordinary people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is a | present | ordinary people | soldiers | 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:9.
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): 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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