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title: The blue-and-yellow flag comes from Galician coats of arms and was u… — Chornobyl and independence in 1991 · tree and pragmatics
description: The blue-and-yellow flag comes from Galician coats of arms and was used by Ukrainians in 1848; it was used in 1918 and adopted again in 1992, and the «sky over wheat» reading is popular and later. Who acts: blue flag, Ukrainians, sky. A sentence of the lesson «Chornobyl and independence in 1991» of 
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# Chornobyl and independence in 1991, sentence 14

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The blue-and-yellow flag comes from Galician coats of arms and was used by Ukrainians in 1848; it was used in 1918 and adopted again in 1992, and the «sky over wheat» reading is popular and later.

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**Who acts:** blue flag, Ukrainians, sky · **What happens:** come, use, adopt, be · **To what, where:** Galician coats, 1848, flag, 1918, 1992

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chornobyl and independence in 1991» 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 (blue flag, Ukrainians, sky), 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:14
# text = The blue-and-yellow flag comes from Galician coats of arms and was used by Ukrainians in 1848; it was used in 1918 and adopted again in 1992, and the «sky over wheat» reading is popular and later.
# 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 ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
7	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Galician	galician	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ukrainians	ukrainian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl:agent	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1848	1848	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1992	1992	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
37	over	over	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:compound
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
40	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	42	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **come** | present | the blue flag |  |  | Galician coats of arms |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from coat=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **use** | past · passive | Ukrainians |  |  | 1848 |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** | past · passive |  | flag |  | 1918 |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **adopt** | participle |  |  |  | 1992 | again |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | the sky  wheat over reading |  |  |  |  | popular *property* | tree rules |

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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 ×1, R7-rel-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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