--- title: Ukraine applied to join the EU in February 2022, became a candidate… — Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations · tree and pragmatics description: Ukraine applied to join the EU in February 2022, became a candidate in June 2022, and accession talks (talks about joining) formally opened in June 2024; it is a candidate, not yet a member. Who acts: Ukraine, talks, accession talks, EU. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ukraine, talks, accession talks, EU), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:050-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations.lesson:16 # text = Ukraine applied to join the EU in February 2022, became a candidate in June 2022, and accession talks (talks about joining) formally opened in June 2024; it is a candidate, not yet a member. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 050-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 applied apply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 EU EU PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 flat _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 flat _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 19 accession accession NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 talks talk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 talks talk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 appos _ _ 23 about about SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 joining join VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 acl _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 formally formally ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 flat _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 candidate candidate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 38 yet yet ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 member member NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:parataxis 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **apply** | past | Ukraine | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **join** | to-infinitive | Ukraine *not said here* | the EU | | | february | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eu=Patient | | 3 | **become** | past | Ukraine *not said here* | a candidate in June | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **join** | gerund | talks *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **open** | past | accession talks | | | | june | formally *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | EU | a candidate and a member | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:050-todays-ukraine-and-danylos-exaggerations.lesson:16`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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