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title: The wise lesson: say «among the hardest-hit» instead of ranking suff… — Ukraine in the Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: The wise lesson: say «among the hardest-hit» instead of ranking suffering, honour the brave by being honest about the others, and remember that one people's pain, like the Crimean Tatars' deportation, helps us understand another's. Who acts: pain, us, one people, Crimean Tatars. A sentence of the le
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# Ukraine in the Second World War, sentence 4

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The wise lesson: say «among the hardest-hit» instead of ranking suffering, honour the brave by being honest about the others, and remember that one people's pain, like the Crimean Tatars' deportation, helps us understand another's.

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**Who acts:** pain, us, one people, Crimean Tatars · **What happens:** say, hit, honour, be, remember, help · **To what, where:** brave, us, another · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine in the Second World War» 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 (pain, us, one people, Crimean Tatars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:047-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war.lesson:4
# text = The wise lesson: say «among the hardest-hit» instead of ranking suffering, honour the brave by being honest about the others, and remember that one people's pain, like the Crimean Tatars' deportation, helps us understand another's.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 047-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	obj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	ranking	ranking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	honour	honour	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Crimean	Crimean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Tatars	Tatar	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	'	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	deportation	deportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
43	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
44	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	45	obj	_	_
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hit** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **honour** | infinitive |  | the brave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the others; honest *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **help** | present | one people's pain and the Crimean Tatars's deportation | us |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 7 | **understand** | infinitive | us *not said here* | another |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer another=Stimulus |
| 8 | **pain** |  | one people |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **deport** |  | the Crimean Tatars |  |  |  |  |  | nom deportation «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×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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