The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 12
Yemen has had a war since 2014 between the Houthis and the government, which was backed by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia; the UN called it one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
Who acts: Yemen, coalition, UN · What happens: have, back, lead, call · To what, where: war, government, coalition, Houthis · 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 (Yemen, coalition, UN), 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 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 war | det |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | since | since | ADP | _ | 7 2014 | case |
| 7 | 2014 | 2014 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 had | obl |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 Houthis | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Houthis | det |
| 10 | Houthis | Houthis | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 government | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 government | det |
| 13 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Houthis | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 backed | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 backed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 backed | aux:pass |
| 17 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 government | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 coalition | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 coalition | det |
| 20 | coalition | coalition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 backed | obl:agent |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 coalition | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Arabia | case |
| 23 | Saudi | Saudi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Arabia | compound |
| 24 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obl:agent |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 called | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 UN | det |
| 27 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 called | nsubj |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 called | obj |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 called | xcomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 crises | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 crises | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 world | case |
| 35 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 crises | amod |
| 36 | humanitarian | humanitarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 crises | amod |
| 37 | crises | crisis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 one | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | Yemen | a war | since 2014 | between the Houthis and the government | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient | ||
| 2 | back | past · passive | a coalition | the government | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lead | participle | a coalition not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | call | past | the UN | Houthis | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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:12.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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