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title: In February 2014 about a hundred protesters were killed on and near… — The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war · tree and pragmatics
description: In February 2014 about a hundred protesters were killed on and near the Maidan, many by snipers (hidden shooters), and police officers also died; the dead protesters are honoured as the «Heavenly Hundred», and Yanukovych fled to Russia. Who acts: many snipers, Yanukovych. A sentence of the lesson «T
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# The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war, sentence 7

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In February 2014 about a hundred protesters were killed on and near the Maidan, many by snipers (hidden shooters), and police officers also died; the dead protesters are honoured as the «Heavenly Hundred», and Yanukovych fled to Russia.

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**Who acts:** many snipers, Yanukovych · **What happens:** kill, hide, die, honour, flee · **To what, where:** hundred protesters, dead protesters, Russia

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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 (many snipers, Yanukovych), 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:7
# text = In February 2014 about a hundred protesters were killed on and near the Maidan, many by snipers (hidden shooters), and police officers also died; the dead protesters are honoured as the «Heavenly Hundred», and Yanukovych fled to 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): R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	protesters	protester	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:case
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Maidan	Maidan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	snipers	sniper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:agent	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
20	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	shooters	shooter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	compound	_	_
26	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:parataxis
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	protesters	protester	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	honoured	honour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:det
37	«	«	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	Heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	Hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:nummod
40	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	Yanukovych	Yanukovych	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:parataxis
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **kill** | past · passive | many snipers and police officers | hundred protesters |  |  | february | the Maidan *obl* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** | past | many snipers and police officers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **honour** | present · passive |  | the dead protesters |  |  |  | as «; the Hundred *obl* | tree rules |
| 5 | **flee** | past | Yanukovych |  |  | Russia |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to 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): R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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