The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 15

In 2021 Myanmar's army took power in a coup and a civil war followed; a big earthquake in March 2025 was made harder to deal with by the fighting.

Who acts: army, civil war, fighting, big earthquake · What happens: take, follow, make, deal · To what, where: power, 2021, big earthquake

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 (army, civil war, fighting, big earthquake), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 2021	case
2	2021	2021	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 took	obl
3	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 army	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Myanmar	case
5	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 coup	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 coup	det
10	coup	coup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 followed	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 war	det
13	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 war	amod
14	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 followed	nsubj
15	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 earthquake	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 earthquake	amod
19	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	nsubj:pass
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 March	case
21	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 earthquake	nmod
22	2025	2025	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 March	nmod:unmarked
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux:pass
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 took	parataxis
25	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 made	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 deal	mark
27	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 harder	xcomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	27 deal	obl
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 fighting	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fighting	det
31	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl:agent
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Myanmar's army	power	2021	in a coup	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent power=Value in 2021=Location
2	follow	past	a civil war				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past · passive	the fighting	a big earthquake in March 2025		hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
4	deal	to-infinitive	a big earthquake in March 2025 not said here				vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:15.

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): no change. 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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