Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim, sentence 9

On how to end the war, some say Ukraine needs weapons to defend itself, others worry that makes the war last longer and want more talks.

Who acts: some, Ukraine, others, war · What happens: end, say, need, defend, worry, make · To what, where: war, weapons, more talks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 (some, Ukraine, others, 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	4 end	mark
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 end	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 end	mark
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 war	det
6	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 needs	nsubj
11	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
12	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 needs	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 defend	mark
14	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 needs	advcl
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 defend	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 worry	punct
17	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 worry	nsubj
18	worry	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 makes	mark
20	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 worry	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 war	det
22	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 makes	obj
23	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 makes	xcomp
24	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 last	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 want	cc
26	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 worry	conj
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 talks	amod
28	talks	talk	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 want	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	end	to-infinitive	some not said here	the war		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	some			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	need	present	Ukraine	weapons		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot weapon=Theme
4	defend	to-infinitive	Ukraine not said here	war		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary
5	worry	present	others			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	make	present	others not said here	the war		tree rules
7	last	infinitive	the war not said here		long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
8	want	present	others not said here	more talks		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot talk=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:040-putting-it-together.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): R7-rel-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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