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description: The zone in Ukraine is about 2,600 square kilometres, and there is a zone on the Belarus side too; without people, forests and meadows grew back into villages and fields. Who acts: zone, forests. A sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» of t
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# The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 9

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The zone in Ukraine is about 2,600 square kilometres, and there is a zone on the Belarus side too; without people, forests and meadows grew back into villages and fields.

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**Who acts:** zone, forests · **What happens:** be, grow back · **To what, where:** 2,600 square kilometres, villages

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» of the biology 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 (zone, forests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.lesson:9
# text = The zone in Ukraine is about 2,600 square kilometres, and there is a zone on the Belarus side too; without people, forests and meadows grew back into villages and fields.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	2,600	2,600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Belarus	Belarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the zone in Ukraine | 2,600 square kilometres |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | a zone on the Belarus side |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow back** | past | forests and meadows |  |  |  |  | into villages and fields *result*; without people | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into village=Result |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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