--- title: The new country chose old symbols, the trident and the hryvnia, and… — Chornobyl and independence in 1991 · tree and pragmatics description: The new country chose old symbols, the trident and the hryvnia, and gave up the nuclear weapons left on its soil for promises in the Budapest Memorandum; the 1990s were hard, and the wise thing is to ask parents and grandparents about the history they lived. 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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 (new country, 1990s, weapons, country), 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:4 # text = The new country chose old symbols, the trident and the hryvnia, and gave up the nuclear weapons left on its soil for promises in the Budapest Memorandum; the 1990s were hard, and the wise thing is to ask parents and grandparents about the history they lived. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 chose chose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 symbols symbol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 trident trident NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hryvnia hryvnia NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 nuclear nuclear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 weapons weapon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Budapest Budapest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 Memorandum memorandum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 1990s 1990s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 34 nsubj _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 43 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 46 about about ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 49 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 50 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 acl:relcl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chose** | past | the new country | old symbols | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give up** | past | the new country *not said here* | the nuclear weapons | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Source | | 3 | **leave** | participle | | the nuclear weapons *not said here* | | country's soil for promises in the Budapest Memorandum | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on soil=Location | | 4 | **is** | past | the 1990s | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | the 1990s *not said here* | the wise thing | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the 1990s *not said here* | parents and grandparents | | | | about the history | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about history=Topic | | 7 | **live** | past | weapons *= weapon* | the history *not said here* | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme history=Location | | 8 | **soil** | | country | | | | | for promises in the Budapest Memorandum | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | 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:4`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Chornobyl and independence in 1991, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/2/) - next →: [Chornobyl and independence in 1991, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/)