--- title: On 26 April 1986 reactor 4 at the Chornobyl nuclear plant exploded;… — Chornobyl and independence in 1991 · tree and pragmatics description: On 26 April 1986 reactor 4 at the Chornobyl nuclear plant exploded; the authorities kept quiet for days, the May Day parade in Kyiv went ahead, and Sweden noticed the radiation first, like a neighbour smelling smoke before the family next door admits the kitchen is on fire. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reactor, authorities, Day parade, Sweden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:048-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991.lesson:1 # text = On 26 April 1986 reactor 4 at the Chornobyl nuclear plant exploded; the authorities kept quiet for days, the May Day parade in Kyiv went ahead, and Sweden noticed the radiation first, like a neighbour smelling smoke before the family next door admits the kitchen is on fire. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 048-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991.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 ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 26 26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 4 1986 1986 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 5 reactor reactor NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 6 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 flat _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 Chornobyl Chornobyl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 nuclear nuclear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 12 exploded explode VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 authorities authority NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 17 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 parade parade NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Kyiv Kyiv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 Sweden Sweden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 radiation radiation NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 32 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 40 smelling smelling VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 acl _ _ 41 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 before before SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:mark 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:det 44 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:compound 45 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 admits admit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 on on ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 ccomp _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explode** | past | reactor at the Chornobyl nuclear plant | | | | april | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | past | the authorities | | | | day | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | the Day parade in Kyiv | | | | | ahead *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **notice** | past | Sweden | the radiation | | | | like a neighbour; first *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer radiation=Stimulus | | 5 | **smelling** | gerund | a neighbour *not said here* | smoke | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | the family | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | the kitchen | | | fire | | | tree rules | 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. **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:048-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991.lesson:1`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Ukraine in the Second World War, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/15/) - next →: [Chornobyl and independence in 1991, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/)