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title: At Babyn Yar in Kyiv, on 29–30 September 1941, Nazi forces murdered… — Ukraine in the Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: At Babyn Yar in Kyiv, on 29–30 September 1941, Nazi forces murdered about 33,771 Jews; in the following years tens of thousands more were killed there, including Roma, prisoners of war and Ukrainian nationalists. Who acts: Nazi forces. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine in the Second World War» of th
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# Ukraine in the Second World War, sentence 7

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At Babyn Yar in Kyiv, on 29–30 September 1941, Nazi forces murdered about 33,771 Jews; in the following years tens of thousands more were killed there, including Roma, prisoners of war and Ukrainian nationalists.

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**Who acts:** Nazi forces · **What happens:** murder, follow, kill · **To what, where:** 33,771 Jews, Babyn Yar, tens

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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 forces), 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:7
# text = At Babyn Yar in Kyiv, on 29–30 September 1941, Nazi forces murdered about 33,771 Jews; in the following years tens of thousands more were killed there, including Roma, prisoners of war and Ukrainian nationalists.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Babyn	Babyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Yar	Yar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
9	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
10	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	1941	1941	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	murdered	murder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	33,771	33,771	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
23	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
25	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	including	including	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Roma	Roma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	nationalists	nationalist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=36:conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **murder** | past | Nazi forces | 33,771 Jews |  | Babyn Yar in Kyiv |  | on 29 – 30  September | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jew=Patient |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | past · passive |  | tens of thousands |  | there | year | including Roma and prisoners of war and Ukrainian nationalists | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:047-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war.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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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