The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 8

The UN reported that more than 12 million people in Sudan were forced from their homes, many fleeing to neighbouring countries such as Chad and Egypt.

Who acts: UN, many · What happens: report, force, flee · To what, where: million people, homes, neighbouring countries

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 (UN, many), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 UN	det
2	UN	UN	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reported	nsubj
3	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 forced	mark
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	8 million	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 more	fixed
7	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 million	compound
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 people	nummod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 forced	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Sudan	case
11	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 people	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forced	aux:pass
13	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reported	ccomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 homes	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 homes	nmod:poss
16	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 forced	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fleeing	punct
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fleeing	nsubj
19	fleeing	flee	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 forced	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 countries	case
21	neighbouring	neighbour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 countries	amod
22	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fleeing	obl
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 Chad	case
24	as	as	ADP	_	23 such	fixed
25	Chad	Chad	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 countries	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Egypt	cc
27	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Chad	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reported	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	report	past	the UN			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	force	past · passive		million people in Sudan	people's homes	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
3	flee	gerund	many		neighbouring countries such Chad and Egypt	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=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:politics:028-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others.lesson:8.

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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