--- title: A ceasefire is like both teams agreeing to stop the match for a whil… — Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; t… · tree and pragmatics description: A ceasefire is like both teams agreeing to stop the match for a while: it is a pause, not the final score. Who acts: ceasefire, teams. 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 tree an --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 4 A ceasefire is like both teams agreeing to stop the match for a while: it is a pause, not the final score. **Who acts:** ceasefire, teams · **What happens:** be, agree, stop · **To what, where:** match, pause 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 (ceasefire, teams), 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:4 # text = A ceasefire is like both teams agreeing to stop the match for a while: it is a pause, not the final score. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ceasefire ceasefire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 teams team NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 agreeing agree VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 pause pause NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 final final ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 score score NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 25 . . 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 | **be** | present | a ceasefire | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | both teams | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | both teams *not said here* | the match | | | while | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality match=Eventuality | | 4 | **is a** | present | ceasefire | a pause and the final score | | | | | 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:4`. **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. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/3/) - next →: [Why wars happen and why they are hard…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/)