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title: General Assembly votes show what most of the world thinks but usuall… — Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; t… · tree and pragmatics
description: General Assembly votes show what most of the world thinks but usually cannot force a country to obey. Who acts: Assembly votes, most, country. 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
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# Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 14

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General Assembly votes show what most of the world thinks but usually cannot force a country to obey.

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**Who acts:** Assembly votes, most, country · **What happens:** show, think, not force, not obey · **To what, where:** country · **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 (Assembly votes, most, country), 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:14
# text = General Assembly votes show what most of the world thinks but usually cannot force a country to obey.
# 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	General	General	PROPN	NNP	_	2	compound	_	_
2	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	force	force	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
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 | **show** | present | Assembly votes |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | most of the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **force** | can | most of the world *not said here* | a country |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent country=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **obey** | to-infinitive | a country *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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