--- title: UN peacekeepers wear blue helmets and help keep a ceasefire without… — Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; t… · tree and pragmatics description: UN peacekeepers wear blue helmets and help keep a ceasefire without taking sides; Ireland has sent peacekeepers for decades, including to Lebanon. Who acts: UN peacekeepers, Ireland. 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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 (UN peacekeepers, Ireland), 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:17 # text = UN peacekeepers wear blue helmets and help keep a ceasefire without taking sides; Ireland has sent peacekeepers for decades, including to Lebanon. # 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 UN UN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 peacekeepers peacekeeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 helmets helmet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ceasefire ceasefire NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 without without SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 18 peacekeepers peacekeeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 decades decade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 including include ADP VBG _ 24 case _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Lebanon Lebanon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **wear** | present | UN peacekeepers | blue helmets | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | | 2 | **help** | present | UN peacekeepers *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | infinitive | UN peacekeepers *not said here* | a ceasefire | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceasefire=Theme | | 4 | **take** | gerund | UN peacekeepers *not said here* | sides | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | | 5 | **send** | present · perfect | Ireland | peacekeepers | | | decade | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacekeeper=Theme | 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. 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