Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 9
«Tensions» means a tight, worried situation where a fight could happen; there is no war between China and Taiwan.
Who acts: Tensions, fight, war · What happens: mean, happen, be · To what, where: tight worried situation
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» 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 (Tensions, fight, 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tensions | punct |
| 2 | Tensions | tension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tensions | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 situation | det |
| 6 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 situation | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tight | punct |
| 8 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 situation | amod |
| 9 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 happen | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fight | det |
| 12 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happen | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 happen | aux |
| 14 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 situation | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 war | det |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 20 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 China | case |
| 21 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 war | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Taiwan | cc |
| 23 | Taiwan | Taiwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 China | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Tensions | a tight worried situation | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | could | a fight | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | present | no war between China and Taiwan | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:9.
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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