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title: Soon Russian troops without badges seized Crimea, and a Russian-back… — The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon Russian troops without badges seized Crimea, and a Russian-backed war began in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk; in July 2014 a missile shot down flight MH17 and all 298 people on board died, and international investigators found the missile was a Buk brought from Russia. Who acts: Russian troops, 
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# The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war, sentence 2

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Soon Russian troops without badges seized Crimea, and a Russian-backed war began in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk; in July 2014 a missile shot down flight MH17 and all 298 people on board died, and international investigators found the missile was a Buk brought from Russia.

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**Who acts:** Russian troops, backed war, missile, 298 people, international investigators · **What happens:** seize, back, begin, shoot down, die, find · **To what, where:** Crimea, parts, 2014, Buk, Russia · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, backed war, missile, 298 people), 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:2
# text = Soon Russian troops without badges seized Crimea, and a Russian-backed war began in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk; in July 2014 a missile shot down flight MH17 and all 298 people on board died, and international investigators found the missile was a Buk brought from Russia.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nsubj	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	badges	badge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Crimea	Crimea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Donetsk	Donetsk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Luhansk	Luhansk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det
27	missile	missile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
30	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	MH17	MH17	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
34	298	298	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	investigators	investigator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	missile	missile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Buk	Buk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	ccomp	_	_
49	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **seize** | past | Russian troops without badges | Crimea |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crimea=Theme |
| 2 | **back** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | a backed war |  |  | parts of Donetsk and Luhansk |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **shoot down** | past | a missile | 2014 in July |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mh17=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | past | all 298 people on board |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **find** | past | international investigators |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | past | the missile | a Buk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **bring** | participle |  | a Buk *not said here* |  | Russia |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from russia=Initial\_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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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