Chornobyl and independence in 1991, sentence 7
Soviet authorities first kept quiet about Chornobyl; Sweden detected the radiation on 28 April, Moscow announced it only briefly that evening, and the May Day parade in Kyiv went ahead on 1 May.
Who acts: Soviet authorities, Sweden, Moscow, Day parade · What happens: keep, detect, announce, go · To what, where: radiation, 28, 1
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 (Soviet authorities, Sweden, Moscow, Day parade), 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 | Soviet | soviet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 authorities | amod |
| 2 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 kept | advmod |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 Chornobyl | case |
| 7 | Chornobyl | Chornobyl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 quiet | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 detected | punct |
| 9 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 detected | nsubj |
| 10 | detected | detect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 radiation | det |
| 12 | radiation | radiation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 detected | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 28 | case |
| 14 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 detected | obl |
| 15 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 28 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 announced | punct |
| 17 | Moscow | Moscow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 announced | nsubj |
| 18 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 detected | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 announced | obj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 briefly | advmod |
| 21 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 18 announced | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 evening | det |
| 23 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 announced | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 parade | det |
| 27 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Day | compound |
| 28 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 parade | compound |
| 29 | parade | parade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | nsubj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Kyiv | case |
| 31 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 parade | nmod |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 33 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 1 | case |
| 35 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 went | obl |
| 36 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Soviet authorities | first, quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | detect | past | Sweden | the radiation | 28 April | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer radiation=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | announce speech: other | past | Moscow | radiation | evening | briefly property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 4 | go | past | the Day parade in Kyiv | 1 May | ahead property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on 1=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: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): 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.
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