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title: «Tensions» means a tight, worried situation where a fight could happ… — Taiwan, China and the word «tensions» · tree and pragmatics
description: «Tensions» means a tight, worried situation where a fight could happen; there is no war between China and Taiwan. Who acts: Tensions, fight, war. A sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 9

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«Tensions» means a tight, worried situation where a fight could happen; there is no war between China and Taiwan.

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**Who acts:** Tensions, fight, war · **What happens:** mean, happen, be · **To what, where:** tight worried situation

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» 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 (Tensions, fight, war), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:9
# text = «Tensions» means a tight, worried situation where a fight could happen; there is no war between China and Taiwan.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Tensions	tension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Tensions | a tight worried situation |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | could | a fight |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | no war between China and Taiwan |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:9`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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