--- title: In 1991 Ukraine had the world's third-largest stock of nuclear weapo… — Chornobyl and independence in 1991 · tree and pragmatics description: In 1991 Ukraine had the world's third-largest stock of nuclear weapons on its soil, though Moscow held the launch controls; under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum it gave them up for assurances from the USA, the UK and Russia to respect its borders, which Russia later broke. 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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 (Ukraine, Moscow, stock, Russia), 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:11 # text = In 1991 Ukraine had the world's third-largest stock of nuclear weapons on its soil, though Moscow held the launch controls; under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum it gave them up for assurances from the USA, the UK and Russia to respect its borders, which Russia later broke. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1991 1991 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 3 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 stock stock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 nuclear nuclear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 weapons weapon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 though though SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 Moscow Moscow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 launch launch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 controls control NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 26 under under ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 1994 1994 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 29 Budapest Budapest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 Memorandum memorandum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 assurances assurance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 respect respect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advcl 47 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 50 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 53 obj _ _ 51 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 52 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 53 advmod _ _ 53 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 acl:relcl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **have** | past | Ukraine | the world's third largest stock of nuclear weapons | | 1991 | | on stock's soil | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Patient | | 2 | **hold** | past | Moscow | the launch controls | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme | | 3 | **give up** | past | stock | controls *= control* | | the 1994 Budapest Memorandum | | for assurances from the USA and the UK and Russia | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source | | 4 | **respect** | to-infinitive | stock *not said here* | stock's borders | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer border=Stimulus | | 5 | **break** | past | Russia | stock's borders | | | | late *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Patient | | 6 | **stock** | | the world | nuclear weapons | | | | | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | | 7 | **soil** | | stock | | | | | | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:11`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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