--- title: Some say countries such as India or African nations should get perma… — Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; t… · tree and pragmatics description: Some say countries such as India or African nations should get permanent seats; others say more vetoes would block even more; changing the rules needs the permanent members to agree. Who acts: Some, countries, others, more vetoes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, countries, others, more vetoes), 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:16 # text = Some say countries such as India or African nations should get permanent seats; others say more vetoes would block even more; changing the rules needs the permanent members to agree. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 4 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 6 case _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 10 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 12 permanent permanent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:Number=Plur|PronType=Ind 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 vetoes veto NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 block block VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 csubj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 permanent permanent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:acl 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** | should | countries such India or African nations | permanent seats | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seat=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **block** | would | more vetoes | more | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer more=Theme | | 5 | **change** | gerund | | the rules | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | | 6 | **need** | present | changing | the permanent members | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **agree** *speech: agree* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the permanent members *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:16`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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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