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title: The United Nations was founded in 1945 with 51 countries and now has… — Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: The United Nations was founded in 1945 with 51 countries and now has 193; in its Security Council five countries can each block any decision alone, called a veto, which many people criticise, and it often cannot stop wars. Who acts: Council five countries, decision, many people, power. A sentence of
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# Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?, sentence 9

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The United Nations was founded in 1945 with 51 countries and now has 193; in its Security Council five countries can each block any decision alone, called a veto, which many people criticise, and it often cannot stop wars.

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**Who acts:** Council five countries, decision, many people, power · **What happens:** found, have, block, call, criticise, not stop · **To what, where:** United Nations, 1945, 193, decision, veto, wars · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» 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 (Council five countries, decision, many people, power), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.lesson:9
# text = The United Nations was founded in 1945 with 51 countries and now has 193; in its Security Council five countries can each block any decision alone, called a veto, which many people criticise, and it often cannot stop wars.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 079-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	51	51	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	193	193	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod:poss
18	Security	Security	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
24	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	veto	veto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
34	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	criticise	criticise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	often	often	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
44	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive |  | the United Nations |  | 1945 |  | with 51 countries | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with country=Instrument |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | 193 |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 193=Patient |
| 3 | **block** | can | Council five countries | any decision |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer decision=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle | any decision *not said here* | a veto |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent veto=Recipient |
| 5 | **criticise** | present | many people | a veto |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **stop** | can | power | wars |  |  |  | often *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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