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title: At the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, 97 Liverpool fans died in a cr… — VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries · tree and pragmatics
description: At the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, 97 Liverpool fans died in a crush; inquests in 2016 found they were unlawfully killed and that the fans were not to blame, and stadiums today have stewards and seats. Who acts: 97 Liverpool fans, inquests, fans, stadiums. A sentence of the lesson «VAR rows, refe
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# VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries, sentence 12

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At the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, 97 Liverpool fans died in a crush; inquests in 2016 found they were unlawfully killed and that the fans were not to blame, and stadiums today have stewards and seats.

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**Who acts:** 97 Liverpool fans, inquests, fans, stadiums · **What happens:** die, find, kill, not blame, have · **To what, where:** Hillsborough disaster, inquests, stewards · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries» of the medicine 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 (97 Liverpool fans, inquests, fans, stadiums), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:065-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries.lesson:12
# text = At the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, 97 Liverpool fans died in a crush; inquests in 2016 found they were unlawfully killed and that the fans were not to blame, and stadiums today have stewards and seats.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 065-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Hillsborough	Hillsborough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	disaster	disaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	97	97	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crush	crush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	inquests	inquest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	unlawfully	unlawfully	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	stadiums	stadium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
37	stewards	steward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | 97 Liverpool fans |  |  | the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 |  | in a crush | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in crush=Attribute |
| 2 | **find** | past | inquests in 2016 |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | past · passive |  | inquests *= inquest* |  |  |  | unlawfully *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **blame** | past | the fans |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | present | stadiums | stewards and seats |  |  | today |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steward=Patient |

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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): R6-punct-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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