Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported, sentence 15
UN agencies reported severe hunger in Gaza, and in August 2025 food experts used by the UN said there was famine in Gaza City; Israel disputed this and said it let in a lot of food and Hamas stole aid.
Who acts: UN agencies, 2025 food experts, famine, Israel, Hamas · What happens: report, use, say, be, dispute, let in · To what, where: severe hunger, Gaza, 2025 food experts, this, lot, aid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported» of the politics 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 (UN agencies, 2025 food experts, famine, Israel), 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 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 agencies | compound |
| 2 | agencies | agency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reported | nsubj |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hunger | amod |
| 5 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reported | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Gaza | case |
| 7 | Gaza | Gaza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reported | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 August | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 August | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 August | case |
| 11 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Gaza | conj |
| 12 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 experts | nummod |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 experts | compound |
| 14 | experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 said | nsubj |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 experts | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 UN | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 UN | det |
| 18 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 used | obl:agent |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | conj |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 22 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 City | case |
| 24 | Gaza | Gaza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 City | compound |
| 25 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 famine | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 disputed | punct |
| 27 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 disputed | nsubj |
| 28 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 disputed | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 disputed | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 let | nsubj |
| 33 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | ccomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 let | compound:prt |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 lot | det |
| 36 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 let | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 food | case |
| 38 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lot | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 stole | cc |
| 40 | Hamas | Hamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 stole | nsubj |
| 41 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | conj |
| 42 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stole | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | 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 | report | past | UN agencies | severe hunger | Gaza and August | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunger=Patient | |||
| 2 | use | participle | 2025 food experts not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | 2025 food experts | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | past | famine in Gaza City | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dispute | past | Israel | this | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Israel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | let in | past | famine | a lot of food | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | ||||
| 8 | steal | past | Hamas | aid | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aid=Theme |
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:politics:026-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported.lesson:15.
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 ×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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