The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 11
The Houthis, an armed group that controls much of Yemen, attacked ships in the Red Sea, saying they acted for Gaza; the US and UK struck back, and many ships went the long way round Africa, news reports said.
Who acts: armed group, Houthis, ships, US, many ships, news reports · What happens: control, attack, say, act, strike back, go · To what, where: much, ships, Red Sea, long way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» 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 (armed group, Houthis, ships, US), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Houthis | det |
| 2 | Houthis | Houthis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 attacked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 group | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 group | det |
| 5 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 group | amod |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Houthis | appos |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 controls | nsubj |
| 8 | controls | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 group | acl:relcl |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 controls | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Yemen | case |
| 11 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 much | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 group | punct |
| 13 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 attacked | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sea | det |
| 17 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Sea | compound |
| 18 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 attacked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saying | punct |
| 20 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 attacked | advcl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 acted | nsubj |
| 22 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saying | ccomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Gaza | case |
| 24 | Gaza | Gaza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 acted | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 US | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 US | det |
| 27 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 struck | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 UK | cc |
| 29 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 US | conj |
| 30 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 attacked | parataxis |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 struck | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ships | amod |
| 35 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 went | nsubj |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 struck | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 way | det |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 way | amod |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | obl |
| 40 | round | round | ADP | _ | 41 Africa | case |
| 41 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 way | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 43 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 reports | compound |
| 44 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 said | nsubj |
| 45 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 attacked | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | present | a armed group | much | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attack | past | the Houthis | ships | the Red Sea | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Houthis not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | act | past | ships = ship | for Gaza | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | strike back | past | the US and UK | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 6 | go | past | many ships | the long way round Africa | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | news reports | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:028-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others.lesson:11.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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