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title: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) fought for independence against S… — Ukraine in the Second World War · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) fought for independence against Soviet forces and at times against the Germans; in 1943–1944 UPA units carried out mass killings of Polish civilians in Volhynia, and Ukrainian and Polish historians work on these facts together. Who acts: Ukrainian Insurgent, 1944 U
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# Ukraine in the Second World War, sentence 9

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The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) fought for independence against Soviet forces and at times against the Germans; in 1943–1944 UPA units carried out mass killings of Polish civilians in Volhynia, and Ukrainian and Polish historians work on these facts together.

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**Who acts:** Ukrainian Insurgent, 1944 UPA units · **What happens:** fight, carry out, work, kill · **To what, where:** mass killings, 1943, Polish civilians, Volhynia

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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 (Ukrainian Insurgent, 1944 UPA units), 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:9
# text = The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) fought for independence against Soviet forces and at times against the Germans; in 1943–1944 UPA units carried out mass killings of Polish civilians in Volhynia, and Ukrainian and Polish historians work on these facts together.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Insurgent	insurgent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:appos
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	UPA	UPA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Soviet	soviet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
13	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Germans	german	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1943	1943	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
23	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
24	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	UPA	UPA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	units	unit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	mass	mass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	killings	killing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	civilians	civilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Volhynia	Volhynia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:amod
41	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
42	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	45	det	_	_
45	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
46	together	together	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **fight** | past | Ukrainian Insurgent |  |  |  |  | for independence against Soviet forces | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry out** | past | 1944 UPA units | mass killings of Polish civilians |  | 1943 | time | in Volhynia and Ukrainian and historians | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent killing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **work** | present |  |  |  |  |  | on this facts; together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on fact=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** |  |  | Polish civilians |  | Volhynia and Ukrainian and historians |  |  | nom killing «event transitive»: of=patient in=place |

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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): R5-strong ×3, 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.

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

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