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title: On 17 July 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eas… — The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war · tree and pragmatics
description: On 17 July 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine and all 298 people died; a Dutch-led (led by the Netherlands) international investigation found a Buk missile brought from Russia, and a Dutch court convicted three men in 2022. Who acts: 298 people, led international i
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# The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war, sentence 10

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On 17 July 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine and all 298 people died; a Dutch-led (led by the Netherlands) international investigation found a Buk missile brought from Russia, and a Dutch court convicted three men in 2022.

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**Who acts:** 298 people, led international investigation, Dutch court · **What happens:** shoot down, die, lead, find, bring, convict · **To what, where:** flight MH17, eastern Ukraine, Buk missile, Russia, three men, 2022

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war» 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 (298 people, led international investigation, Dutch court), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:049-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war.lesson:10
# text = On 17 July 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine and all 298 people died; a Dutch-led (led by the Netherlands) international investigation found a Buk missile brought from Russia, and a Dutch court convicted three men in 2022.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 049-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Airlines	Airline	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	MH17	MH17	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
17	298	298	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
22	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
26	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
31	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	investigation	investigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Buk	Buk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	missile	missile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	convicted	convict	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
46	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	obl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **shoot down** | past · passive |  | flight MH17 |  | eastern Ukraine | july |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over ukraine=Destination |
| 2 | **die** | past | all 298 people |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **lead** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **lead** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the Netherlands | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by netherlands=Destination |
| 5 | **find** | past | a led international investigation | a Buk missile |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent missile=Topic |
| 6 | **bring** | participle |  | a Buk missile *not said here* |  | Russia |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from russia=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **convict** | past | a Dutch court | three men |  | 2022 |  |  | 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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