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title: On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine… — Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sending soldiers, tanks and planes across the border, as widely reported around the world. Who acts: Russia. A sentence of the lesson «Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sentence 0

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On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sending soldiers, tanks and planes across the border, as widely reported around the world.

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**Who acts:** Russia · **What happens:** launch, send, report, invade · **To what, where:** scale invasion, soldiers, border, world, Ukraine

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine» of the politics 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 (Russia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:024-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine.lesson:0
# text = On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sending soldiers, tanks and planes across the border, as widely reported around the world.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 024-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine.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 ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	24	24	NUM	CD	Number=Sing	3	nummod	_	_
3	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
16	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	planes	plane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
28	around	around	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **launch** | past | Russia | a scale invasion of Ukraine |  |  | february |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invasion=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | gerund | Russia *not said here* | soldiers and tanks and planes |  | the border |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme |
| 3 | **report** | participle | Russia *not said here* |  |  | the world |  | widely *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **invade** |  |  | Ukraine |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=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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**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:politics:024-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine.lesson:0`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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