--- title: When thousands of people flee a war, they are called refugees; they… — Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk abou… · tree and pragmatics description: When thousands of people flee a war, they are called refugees; they stay in camps, schools and other people's homes, and charities help them. Who acts: thousands, charities. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousands, charities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:11 # text = When thousands of people flee a war, they are called refugees; they stay in camps, schools and other people's homes, and charities help them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 flee flee VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 refugees refugee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 camps camp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:amod 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 charities charity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **flee** | present | thousands of people | a war | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | thousands *= thousand* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **stay** | present | thousands *= thousand* | | | camps and schools and other people's homes | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location | | 4 | **help** | present | charities | wars *= war* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:11`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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