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title: Igor Sikorsky, born in Kyiv in 1889, built the first practical mass-… — Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations · tree and pragmatics
description: Igor Sikorsky, born in Kyiv in 1889, built the first practical mass-produced helicopters, the VS-300 and R-4, in the USA; others in France and elsewhere built earlier rotorcraft. Who acts: Igor, others. A sentence of the lesson «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations» of the history course of Mo
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# Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations, sentence 7

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Igor Sikorsky, born in Kyiv in 1889, built the first practical mass-produced helicopters, the VS-300 and R-4, in the USA; others in France and elsewhere built earlier rotorcraft.

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**Who acts:** Igor, others · **What happens:** bear, build, produce · **To what, where:** Igor, Kyiv, first practical produced helicopters, USA, earlier rotorcraft

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Today's Ukraine and Danylo's exaggerations» 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 (Igor, others), 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:7
# text = Igor Sikorsky, born in Kyiv in 1889, built the first practical mass-produced helicopters, the VS-300 and R-4, in the USA; others in France and elsewhere built earlier rotorcraft.
# 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): no change
1	Igor	Igor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Sikorsky	Sikorsky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1889	1889	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	built	build	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
13	practical	practical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	VS	VS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
22	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	R	R	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
26	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
32	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	34	conj	_	_
37	built	build	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
38	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	amod	_	_
39	rotorcraft	rotorcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **bear** | participle |  | Igor *not said here* |  | Kyiv |  | in 1889 | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **build** | past | Igor | the first practical produced helicopters |  | the USA |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helicopter=Product |
| 3 | **produce** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **build** | past | others in France | earlier rotorcraft |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rotorcraft=Product |

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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): 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.

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