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title: Ukraine is one of the world's biggest exporters of wheat, corn and s… — The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war · tree and pragmatics
description: Ukraine is one of the world's biggest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil; when its Black Sea ports were blocked in 2022, food prices rose in many countries, including in Africa and the Middle East. Who acts: Ukraine, food prices. A sentence of the lesson «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan an
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# The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war, sentence 15

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Ukraine is one of the world's biggest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil; when its Black Sea ports were blocked in 2022, food prices rose in many countries, including in Africa and the Middle East.

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**Who acts:** Ukraine, food prices · **What happens:** be, block, rise · **To what, where:** one, Sea ports, 2022, many countries

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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 (Ukraine, food prices), 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:15
# text = Ukraine is one of the world's biggest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil; when its Black Sea ports were blocked in 2022, food prices rose in many countries, including in Africa and the Middle East.
# 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): no change
1	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	exporters	exporter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	including	include	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | Ukraine | one |  |  |  | of the world's biggest exporters of wheat and corn and sunflower oil | tree rules |
| 2 | **block** | past · passive |  | oil's Sea ports |  | 2022 |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in 2022=Location |
| 3 | **rise** | past | food prices |  |  | many countries include Africa and the Middle East |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in country=Location |

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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:15`.

**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/).

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