--- title: Wars can end: peace treaties have been signed, and countries that on… — Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk abou… · tree and pragmatics description: Wars can end: peace treaties have been signed, and countries that once fought each other are friends now. Who acts: Wars, countries. 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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 (Wars, countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:16 # text = Wars can end: peace treaties have been signed, and countries that once fought each other are friends now. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 treaties treaty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 signed sign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 12 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 15 advmod _ _ 15 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 each each PRON DT PronType=Tot 15 obj _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 fixed _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 20 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **end** | can | Wars | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **sign** | present · perfect · passive | | peace treaties | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | | 3 | **fight** | past | countries | each | | | | once *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | countries | friends | | | now | | 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](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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.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): R6-punct-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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