--- title: Unlike a playground scrap, many ordinary people, called civilians, l… — Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; t… · tree and pragmatics description: Unlike a playground scrap, many ordinary people, called civilians, lose their homes, their safety or their lives. Who acts: many ordinary people. A sentence of the lesson «Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Why wars happen and why they are hard…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/) / 1 # Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 1 Unlike a playground scrap, many ordinary people, called civilians, lose their homes, their safety or their lives. **Who acts:** many ordinary people · **What happens:** call, lose · **To what, where:** civilians, homes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO» of the politics 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 (many ordinary people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:023-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato.lesson:1 # text = Unlike a playground scrap, many ordinary people, called civilians, lose their homes, their safety or their lives. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 023-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Unlike unlike ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 scrap scrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 11 civilians civilian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | civilians *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lose** | present | many ordinary people | people's homes and people's safety or people's lives | | | | unlike a playground scrap | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality | 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:politics:023-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato.lesson:1`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Why wars happen and why they are hard…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/0/) - next →: [Why wars happen and why they are hard…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/)