Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes, sentence 16

Several countries dropped food from planes over Gaza when trucks could not bring in enough; aid groups said airdrops carry far less than trucks, cost more and can be dangerous for people below.

Who acts: Several countries, trucks, aid groups, airdrops · What happens: drop, not bring in, say, carry, cost, be · To what, where: food, planes, less, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes» 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 (Several countries, trucks, aid groups, airdrops), 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	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 countries	amod
2	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 planes	case
6	planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dropped	obl
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 Gaza	case
8	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obl
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 bring	mark
10	trucks	truck	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bring	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bring	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 bring	advmod
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dropped	advcl
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 bring	advmod
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 bring	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 groups	compound
18	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	parataxis
20	airdrops	airdrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carry	nsubj
21	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 less	advmod
23	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 carry	obj
24	than	than	ADP	_	23 less	fixed
25	trucks	truck	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 less	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cost	punct
27	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 carry	conj
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 cost	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dangerous	cc
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 dangerous	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 dangerous	cop
32	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 carry	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 people	case
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 dangerous	obl
35	below	below	ADV	_	34 people	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	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	drop	past	Several countries	food	planes	over Gaza	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme from plane=Destination over gaza=Initial_Location
2	not bring in	could	trucks			enough property	vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	aid groups				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	carry	present	airdrops	less			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme
5	cost	present	airdrops not said here	more			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value
6	is	can	airdrops not said here			for people; dangerous property	tree rules

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:030-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes.lesson:16.

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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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