--- title: Most quarrels between countries are settled by diplomacy, which mean… — Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; t… · tree and pragmatics description: Most quarrels between countries are settled by diplomacy, which means talking and making deals. Who acts: diplomacy. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 10 Most quarrels between countries are settled by diplomacy, which means talking and making deals. **Who acts:** diplomacy · **What happens:** settle, mean, talk, make · **To what, where:** Most quarrels, deals · **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 (diplomacy), 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:10 # text = Most quarrels between countries are settled by diplomacy, which means talking and making deals. # 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): no change 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 quarrels quarrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 between between ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 diplomacy diplomacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 ccomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 15 deals deal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **settle** | present · passive | diplomacy | Most quarrels between countries | | | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme subject=Location | | 2 | **mean** | present | diplomacy | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | gerund | | deals | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset deal=Product | 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:10`. **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/). - ← previous: [Why wars happen and why they are hard…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/9/) - next →: [Why wars happen and why they are hard…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/)