The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 7
A war began in Sudan in April 2023 between the country's army and a powerful armed group called the RSF, news reports said, and each side says the other started it.
Who acts: war, news reports, side, other · What happens: begin, call, say, start · To what, where: Sudan, powerful armed group, side · 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 (war, news reports, side, other), 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 | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Sudan | case |
| 5 | Sudan | Sudan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 2023 | case |
| 7 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 8 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 began | obl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 army | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 army | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 country | case |
| 13 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 2023 | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 group | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 group | det |
| 16 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 group | amod |
| 17 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 group | amod |
| 18 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 army | conj |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 group | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 RSF | det |
| 21 | RSF | RSF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 23 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reports | compound |
| 24 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 says | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 says | cc |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 side | det |
| 29 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 says | nsubj |
| 30 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 other | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 started | nsubj |
| 33 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 says | ccomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 started | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | a war | Sudan | april | in 2023 between the country's army and a powerful armed group | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | call | participle | a powerful armed group not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | news reports | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | each side | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | start | past | the other | side | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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