--- title: Soviet authorities first kept quiet about Chornobyl; Sweden detected… — Chornobyl and independence in 1991 · tree and pragmatics description: Soviet authorities first kept quiet about Chornobyl; Sweden detected the radiation on 28 April, Moscow announced it only briefly that evening, and the May Day parade in Kyiv went ahead on 1 May. Who acts: Soviet authorities, Sweden, Moscow, Day parade. 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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 (Soviet authorities, Sweden, Moscow, Day parade), 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:7 # text = Soviet authorities first kept quiet about Chornobyl; Sweden detected the radiation on 28 April, Moscow announced it only briefly that evening, and the May Day parade in Kyiv went ahead on 1 May. # 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): no change 1 Soviet soviet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 authorities authority NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 4 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Chornobyl Chornobyl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Sweden Sweden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 detected detect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 radiation radiation NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 28 28 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 15 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 Moscow Moscow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 briefly briefly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 parade parade NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Kyiv Kyiv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 obl _ _ 36 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:unmarked _ _ 37 . . 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 | **keep** | past | Soviet authorities | | | | | first, quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **detect** | past | Sweden | the radiation | | 28 April | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer radiation=Stimulus | | 3 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Moscow | radiation | | | evening | briefly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **go** | past | the Day parade in Kyiv | | | 1 May | | ahead *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on 1=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:7`. **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): no change. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/6/) - next →: [Chornobyl and independence in 1991, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/)