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title: After Russian troops withdrew from Bucha near Kyiv in spring 2022, i… — The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war · tree and pragmatics
description: After Russian troops withdrew from Bucha near Kyiv in spring 2022, investigators found many civilians killed; the UN and international courts are investigating war crimes there. Who acts: Russian troops, investigators, UN. A sentence of the lesson «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war» of t
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# The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war, sentence 13

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After Russian troops withdrew from Bucha near Kyiv in spring 2022, investigators found many civilians killed; the UN and international courts are investigating war crimes there.

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**Who acts:** Russian troops, investigators, UN · **What happens:** withdraw, find, kill, investigate · **To what, where:** Bucha, many civilians, war crimes

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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 (Russian troops, investigators, UN), 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:13
# text = After Russian troops withdrew from Bucha near Kyiv in spring 2022, investigators found many civilians killed; the UN and international courts are investigating war crimes there.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nsubj	_	_
4	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Bucha	Bucha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	investigators	investigator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	civilians	civilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
22	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	investigating	investigate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
26	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **withdraw** | past | Russian troops |  |  | Bucha near Kyiv | spring |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bucha=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | investigators | many civilians |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent civilian=Topic |
| 3 | **kill** | participle |  | many civilians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **investigate** | present · progressive | the UN and international courts | war crimes |  | there |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme |

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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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**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:049-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war.lesson:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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