The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 14
News reports said the rebel group M23 took the city of Goma in January 2025; UN experts said Rwanda backed M23, which Rwanda denied, and the two countries signed a peace deal in Washington in June 2025.
Who acts: News reports, rebel group, UN experts, Rwanda, two countries · What happens: say, take, back, deny, sign · To what, where: city, M23, peace deal, Washington · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» 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 (News reports, rebel group, UN experts, Rwanda), 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 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reports | compound |
| 2 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 group | det |
| 5 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 group | compound |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 7 | M23 | M23 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Goma | case |
| 12 | Goma | Goma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 city | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 January | case |
| 14 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 15 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 January | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 experts | compound |
| 18 | experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | parataxis |
| 20 | Rwanda | Rwanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 backed | nsubj |
| 21 | backed | back | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 22 | M23 | M23 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 backed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 denied | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 denied | obj |
| 25 | Rwanda | Rwanda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 denied | nsubj |
| 26 | denied | deny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 M23 | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 signed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 signed | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 countries | det |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 countries | nummod |
| 31 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 signed | nsubj |
| 32 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 deal | det |
| 34 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 deal | compound |
| 35 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 signed | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Washington | case |
| 37 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 signed | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 June | case |
| 39 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 signed | obl |
| 40 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 June | flat |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | News reports | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the rebel group | the city of Goma | january | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | UN experts | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | back | past | Rwanda | M23 | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent m23=Agent | ||||
| 5 | deny | past | Rwanda | M23 | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | sign | past | the two countries | a peace deal | Washington | june | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent deal=Theme in washington=Destination |
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.
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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. 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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