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title: Even war has rules. — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through… · tree and pragmatics
description: Even war has rules. Who acts: war. A sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 8

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Even war has rules.

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**Who acts:** war · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** rules

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history 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 (war), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:8
# text = Even war has rules.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.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): no change
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | war | rules |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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/).

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