The environment, sentence 13
Whether rich countries that polluted more should pay to help poorer countries is a disputed question.
Who acts: rich countries · What happens: pollute, pay, help, dispute, be · To what, where: poorer countries, disputed question · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion ethics 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 (rich countries), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 pay | mark |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 countries | amod |
| 3 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 polluted | nsubj |
| 5 | polluted | pollute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 countries | acl:relcl |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 polluted | advmod |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pay | aux |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 question | csubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pay | advcl |
| 11 | poorer | poor | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 countries | amod |
| 12 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 help | obj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 question | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 question | det |
| 15 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 question | amod |
| 16 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 question | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pollute | past | rich countries | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pay | should | rich countries | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | rich countries not said here | poorer countries | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | dispute | participle | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | be speech: other | present | a disputed question | 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:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:13.
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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