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title: Nazi Germany occupied Ukraine from 1941 to 1944; millions of civilia… — Ukraine in the Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: Nazi Germany occupied Ukraine from 1941 to 1944; millions of civilians and soldiers died, and over two million people were taken to Germany for forced labour as «Ostarbeiter». Who acts: Nazi, millions. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine in the Second World War» of the history course of Mova's primary
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# Ukraine in the Second World War, sentence 6

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Nazi Germany occupied Ukraine from 1941 to 1944; millions of civilians and soldiers died, and over two million people were taken to Germany for forced labour as «Ostarbeiter».

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**Who acts:** Nazi, millions · **What happens:** occupied, die, take, force · **To what, where:** Ukraine, 1941, million people, Germany

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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 (Nazi, millions), 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:6
# text = Nazi Germany occupied Ukraine from 1941 to 1944; millions of civilians and soldiers died, and over two million people were taken to Germany for forced labour as «Ostarbeiter».
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	occupied	occupied	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	civilians	civilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
18	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nummod
20	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
31	Ostarbeiter	Ostarbeiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **occupied** | past | Nazi | Ukraine |  | 1941 to 1944 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | past | millions of civilians and soldiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **take** | past · passive |  | million people | Germany |  |  | for forced labour; as Ostarbeiter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to germany=Destination |
| 4 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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**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:047-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war.lesson:6`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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