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title: Kyiv celebrated 1,500 years in 1982; the date was chosen in Soviet t… — Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus · tree and pragmatics
description: Kyiv celebrated 1,500 years in 1982; the date was chosen in Soviet times from legends and archaeology, and the exact founding year is not known. Who acts: Kyiv. A sentence of the lesson «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus, sentence 6

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Kyiv celebrated 1,500 years in 1982; the date was chosen in Soviet times from legends and archaeology, and the exact founding year is not known.

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**Who acts:** Kyiv · **What happens:** celebrate, choose, not know · **To what, where:** 1982, date, legends, exact founding year

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus» of the history 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 (Kyiv), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:041-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus.lesson:6
# text = Kyiv celebrated 1,500 years in 1982; the date was chosen in Soviet times from legends and archaeology, and the exact founding year is not known.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 041-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1982	1982	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	archaeology	archaeology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	founding	founding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | past | Kyiv |  |  | 1982 | year |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **choose** | past · passive |  | the date |  | legends and archaeology | time |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from legend=Source |
| 3 | **not** **know** | present · passive |  | the exact founding year |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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