--- title: Most quarrels are settled by talking, deals and courts; war comes wh… — Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; t… · tree and pragmatics description: Most quarrels are settled by talking, deals and courts; war comes when talking fails or one side decides to use force. Who acts: war, one side. 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 dependenc --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 3 Most quarrels are settled by talking, deals and courts; war comes when talking fails or one side decides to use force. **Who acts:** war, one side · **What happens:** settle, talk, come, fail, decide, use · **To what, where:** Most quarrels, force 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 (war, one side), 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:3 # text = Most quarrels are settled by talking, deals and courts; war comes when talking fails or one side decides to use force. # 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 ×4 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 quarrels quarrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 deals deal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod 16 fails fail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **settle** | present · passive | | Most quarrels | | | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | present | war | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fail** | present | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **decide** | present | one side | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **use** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one side *not said here* | force | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient | 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:3`. **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 ×4. **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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/2/) - next →: [Why wars happen and why they are hard…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/)