--- title: The news shows the most frightening things from anywhere in the worl… — Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; t… · tree and pragmatics description: The news shows the most frightening things from anywhere in the world, so a war can feel close even when it is very far away. Who acts: news, war. 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 depend --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 20 The news shows the most frightening things from anywhere in the world, so a war can feel close even when it is very far away. **Who acts:** news, war · **What happens:** show, feel, be · **To what, where:** frightening things, world 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 (news, war), 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:20 # text = The news shows the most frightening things from anywhere in the world, so a war can feel close even when it is very far away. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 6 advmod _ _ 6 frightening frightening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 12 advmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 when when SCONJ WRB _ 26 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 18 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | the news | the frightening things | | the world | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | | 2 | **feel** | can | a war | | | | | close *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | war | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | 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:20`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/19/) - next →: [Why wars happen and why they are hard…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/)