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title: In April 1918 Pavlo Skoropadsky took power as Hetman with German sup… — The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor · tree and pragmatics
description: In April 1918 Pavlo Skoropadsky took power as Hetman with German support; his Hetmanate founded the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, which still exists, and fell in December 1918. Who acts: Pavlo Skoropadsky, Hetmanate, Ukrainian Academy. A sentence of the lesson «The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holod
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# The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor, sentence 7

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In April 1918 Pavlo Skoropadsky took power as Hetman with German support; his Hetmanate founded the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, which still exists, and fell in December 1918.

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**Who acts:** Pavlo Skoropadsky, Hetmanate, Ukrainian Academy · **What happens:** take, found, exist, fall · **To what, where:** power, Ukrainian Academy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor» 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 (Pavlo Skoropadsky, Hetmanate, Ukrainian Academy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:046-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor.lesson:7
# text = In April 1918 Pavlo Skoropadsky took power as Hetman with German support; his Hetmanate founded the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, which still exists, and fell in December 1918.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 046-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	Pavlo	Pavlo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Skoropadsky	Skoropadsky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hetman	Hetman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Hetmanate	hetmanate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Academy	Academy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Sciences	Science	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod:unmarked	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **take** | past | Pavlo Skoropadsky | power |  |  | april | as Hetman; with German support | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent power=Theme as hetman=Attribute |
| 2 | **found** | past | Skoropadsky's Hetmanate | the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent academy=Patient |
| 3 | **exist** | present | the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Skoropadsky's Hetmanate *not said here* |  |  |  | december |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:history:046-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor.lesson:7`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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

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