The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war, sentence 2

Soon Russian troops without badges seized Crimea, and a Russian-backed war began in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk; in July 2014 a missile shot down flight MH17 and all 298 people on board died, and international investigators found the missile was a Buk brought from Russia.

Who acts: Russian troops, backed war, missile, 298 people, international investigators · What happens: seize, back, begin, shoot down, die, find · To what, where: Crimea, parts, 2014, Buk, Russia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war» 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 (Russian troops, backed war, missile, 298 people), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 seized	advmod
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 troops	amod
3	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 seized	nsubj
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 badges	case
5	badges	badge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 troops	nmod
6	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Crimea	Crimea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seized	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 war	det
11	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 backed	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Russian	punct
13	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 war	amod
14	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seized	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 parts	case
17	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 began	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Donetsk	case
19	Donetsk	Donetsk	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 parts	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Luhansk	cc
21	Luhansk	Luhansk	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Donetsk	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 2014	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 July	case
24	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 2014	nmod:unmarked
25	2014	2014	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 shot	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 missile	det
27	missile	missile	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shot	nsubj
28	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 began	conj
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 shot	compound:prt
30	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 MH17	compound
31	MH17	MH17	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 shot	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 people	cc
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 people	det
34	298	298	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 people	nummod
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 died	nsubj
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 board	case
37	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 people	nmod
38	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 shot	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 found	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 found	cc
41	international	international	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 investigators	amod
42	investigators	investigator	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 found	nsubj
43	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 began	parataxis
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 missile	det
45	missile	missile	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 Buk	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 Buk	cop
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 Buk	det
48	Buk	Buk	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 found	ccomp
49	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 Buk	acl
50	from	from	ADP	_	51 Russia	case
51	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 brought	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seized	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	seize	past	Russian troops without badges	Crimea		soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crimea=Theme
2	back	participle					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	a backed war		parts of Donetsk and Luhansk		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	shoot down	past	a missile	2014 in July			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mh17=Theme
5	die	past	all 298 people on board				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	find	past	international investigators				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	the missile	a Buk			tree rules
8	bring	participle		a Buk not said here	Russia		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from russia=Initial_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:049-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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.

See the release 0.4.

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