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title: Peace talks can take months or years, and each side often says the o… — Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Peace talks can take months or years, and each side often says the other broke a ceasefire first. Who acts: Peace talks, side, other. 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
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# Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 12

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Peace talks can take months or years, and each side often says the other broke a ceasefire first.

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**Who acts:** Peace talks, side, other · **What happens:** take, say, break · **To what, where:** ceasefire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Peace talks, side, other), 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:12
# text = Peace talks can take months or years, and each side often says the other broke a ceasefire first.
# 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	Peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	talks	talk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
16	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ceasefire	ceasefire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **take** | can | Peace talks |  |  |  | month |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | each side |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **break** | past | the other | a ceasefire |  |  |  | first *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ceasefire=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.

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