--- title: Peace talks about land, safety and justice can take years, and a smi… — Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; t… · tree and pragmatics description: Peace talks about land, safety and justice can take years, and a smile for the cameras does not mean a deal. Who acts: Peace talks, smile. 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 tre --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 5 Peace talks about land, safety and justice can take years, and a smile for the cameras does not mean a deal. **Who acts:** Peace talks, smile · **What happens:** take, not mean · **To what, where:** deal 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 (Peace talks, smile), 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:5 # text = Peace talks about land, safety and justice can take years, and a smile for the cameras does not mean a deal. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 talks talk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 justice justice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 cameras camera NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | can | Peace talks about land and safety and justice | | | | year | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | a smile for the cameras | a deal | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Topic | 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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/4/) - next →: [Why wars happen and why they are hard…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/)