Chornobyl and independence in 1991, sentence 11

In 1991 Ukraine had the world's third-largest stock of nuclear weapons on its soil, though Moscow held the launch controls; under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum it gave them up for assurances from the USA, the UK and Russia to respect its borders, which Russia later broke.

Who acts: Ukraine, Moscow, stock, Russia, world · What happens: have, hold, give up, respect, break, stock · To what, where: third largest stock, 1991, launch controls, controls, 1994 Budapest Memorandum, borders

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chornobyl and independence in 1991» of the history 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 (Ukraine, Moscow, stock, Russia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 1991	case
2	1991	1991	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 had	obl
3	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stock	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 world	case
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 stock	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 third	punct
10	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 stock	amod
11	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 weapons	case
13	nuclear	nuclear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weapons	amod
14	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stock	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 soil	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 soil	nmod:poss
17	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 held	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 held	mark
20	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 held	nsubj
21	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 controls	det
23	launch	launch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 controls	compound
24	controls	control	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 held	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
26	under	under	ADP	_	30 Memorandum	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Memorandum	det
28	1994	1994	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 Memorandum	nummod
29	Budapest	Budapest	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Memorandum	compound
30	Memorandum	memorandum	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gave	nsubj
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gave	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 gave	compound:prt
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 assurances	case
36	assurances	assurance	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gave	obl
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 USA	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 USA	det
39	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 assurances	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 UK	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 UK	det
42	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 USA	conj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 Russia	cc
44	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 USA	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 respect	mark
46	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 assurances	acl
47	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 borders	nmod:poss
48	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 respect	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 broke	punct
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 broke	obj
51	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 broke	nsubj
52	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 broke	advmod
53	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 borders	acl:relcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Ukraine	the world's third largest stock of nuclear weapons	1991	on stock's soil	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Patient
2	hold	past	Moscow	the launch controls			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme
3	give up	past	stock	controls = control	the 1994 Budapest Memorandum	for assurances from the USA and the UK and Russia	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source
4	respect	to-infinitive	stock not said here	stock's borders			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer border=Stimulus
5	break	past	Russia	stock's borders		late property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Patient
6	stock		the world	nuclear weapons			nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
7	soil		stock				nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent

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, 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:history:048-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991.lesson:11.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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