Chornobyl and independence in 1991, sentence 2

Danylo said Chornobyl «killed millions», and the teacher said «only 31 died»; both were wrong in opposite ways: about 31 died in the first months, while later deaths from radiation are still studied and estimates range from thousands to tens of thousands.

Who acts: Danylo, Chornobyl, teacher, 31, both, estimates · What happens: say, kill, die, be, study, range · To what, where: millions, opposite ways, later deaths, thousands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Danylo, Chornobyl, teacher, 31), 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	Danylo	Danylo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Chornobyl	Chornobyl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 killed	nsubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 killed	punct
5	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
6	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 killed	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 killed	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 teacher	det
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 died	punct
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 31	advmod
15	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 died	nsubj
16	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 died	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 wrong	punct
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 wrong	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wrong	cop
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 ways	case
23	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ways	amod
24	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wrong	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 died	punct
26	about	about	ADV	_	27 31	advmod
27	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 died	nsubj
28	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ways	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 months	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 months	det
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 months	amod
32	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 died	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 studied	punct
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	41 studied	mark
35	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 deaths	amod
36	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 studied	nsubj:pass
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 radiation	case
38	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 deaths	nmod
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 studied	aux:pass
40	still	still	ADV	_	41 studied	advmod
41	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 died	advcl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 range	cc
43	estimates	estimate	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 range	nsubj
44	range	range	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 studied	conj
45	from	from	ADP	_	46 thousands	case
46	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 range	obl
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 tens	case
48	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 range	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 thousands	case
50	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 tens	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=evaluate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Danylo					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill in a quote	past	Chornobyl	millions				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the teacher					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	die in a quote	past	31					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	is	past	both		opposite ways		wrong property	tree rules
6	die	past	31	opposite ways not said here		month		tree rules
7	study	present · passive		later deaths from radiation		still		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
8	range	present	estimates		thousands		to tens of thousands	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from thousand=Location

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:2.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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