--- title: Danylo said Chornobyl «killed millions», and the teacher said «only… — Chornobyl and independence in 1991 · tree and pragmatics description: Danylo said Chornobyl «killed millions», and the teacher said «only 31 died»; both were wrong in opposite ways: about 31 died in the first months, while later deaths from radiation are still studied and estimates range from thousands to tens of thousands. Who acts: Danylo, Chornobyl, teacher, 31. 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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 (Danylo, Chornobyl, teacher, 31), 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:2 # text = Danylo said Chornobyl «killed millions», and the teacher said «only 31 died»; both were wrong in opposite ways: about 31 died in the first months, while later deaths from radiation are still studied and estimates range from thousands to tens of thousands. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Danylo Danylo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Chornobyl Chornobyl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 31 31 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nsubj _ _ 16 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 31 31 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nsubj _ _ 28 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 32 amod _ _ 32 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 while while SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 35 later late ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 36 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 radiation radiation NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 40 still still ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 studied study VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 estimates estimate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 range range VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nmod _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Danylo | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | past | Chornobyl | millions | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **die** *in a quote* | past | 31 | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **is** | past | both | | | opposite ways | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **die** | past | 31 | opposite ways *not said here* | | | month | | tree rules | | 7 | **study** | present · passive | | later deaths from radiation | | | still | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 8 | **range** | present | estimates | | | thousands | | to tens of thousands | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from thousand=Location | 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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Chornobyl and independence in 1991, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/1/) - next →: [Chornobyl and independence in 1991, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/)