--- title: In a war, soldiers and sometimes ordinary people, including children… — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics description: In a war, soldiers and sometimes ordinary people, including children, are killed; it is one of the saddest things in the world. Who acts: person. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:7 # text = In a war, soldiers and sometimes ordinary people, including children, are killed; it is one of the saddest things in the world. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 9 advmod _ _ 8 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 including include VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 case _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:_ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 saddest sad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **include** | gerund | | | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **kill** | present · passive | | soldiers and ordinary people include children | | a war | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | person | one | | | | of the saddest things in the world | 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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. 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