The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 17

Reports said 2023 and 2024 were the deadliest years on record for aid workers, and the rules of war say aid workers must be protected.

Who acts: Reports, 2023, rules, war · What happens: say, be, protect, rule · To what, where: deadliest years, record, aid workers · 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 (Reports, 2023, rules, war), 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	Reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	2023	2023	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 2024	cc
5	2024	2024	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 2023	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 years	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 years	det
8	deadliest	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 years	amod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	ccomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 record	case
11	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 years	nmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 workers	case
13	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 workers	compound
14	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 record	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 say	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rules	det
18	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 say	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 war	case
20	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rules	nmod
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
22	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 workers	compound
23	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 protected	nsubj:pass
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 protected	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 protected	aux:pass
26	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 say	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Reports			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	2023	the deadliest years	record for aid workers	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	the rules of war			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	protect	must · passive		aid workers		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
5	rule		war			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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:17.

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, R8-pos-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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