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title: Millions of Ukrainians had to flee their homes. — Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: Millions of Ukrainians had to flee their homes. Who acts: Millions. A sentence of the lesson «Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sentence 1

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Millions of Ukrainians had to flee their homes.

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**Who acts:** Millions · **What happens:** have, flee · **To what, where:** homes

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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 (Millions), 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:1
# text = Millions of Ukrainians had to flee their homes.
# 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): no change
1	Millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ukrainians	ukrainian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **have** | past | Millions of Ukrainians |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flee** | to-infinitive | Millions of Ukrainians *not said here* | Millions's homes |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=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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**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:1`.

**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.

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

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