--- title: A war is when countries or groups fight with weapons, and ordinary p… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: A war is when countries or groups fight with weapons, and ordinary people get hurt and lose their homes; many people help by giving to charities. Who acts: countries, many people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countries, many people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:12 # text = A war is when countries or groups fight with weapons, and ordinary people get hurt and lose their homes; many people help by giving to charities. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 weapons weapon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 25 by by SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 charities charity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | countries or groups | | | | | with weapons; fight *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hurt** | present · passive | | ordinary people | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **lose** | present | | people's homes | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality | | 4 | **help** | present | many people | a war *not said here* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Beneficiary | | 5 | **give** | gerund | many people *not said here* | | charities | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to charity=Recipient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:12`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/11/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)