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title: In 2014 Russian forces took control of Crimea and Russia said it had… — Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2014 Russian forces took control of Crimea and Russia said it had joined Russia after a vote; most countries and a UN General Assembly vote said Crimea is still part of Ukraine. Who acts: Russian forces, Russia, control, most countries. A sentence of the lesson «Russia's full-scale invasion of Uk
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# Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sentence 11

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In 2014 Russian forces took control of Crimea and Russia said it had joined Russia after a vote; most countries and a UN General Assembly vote said Crimea is still part of Ukraine.

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**Who acts:** Russian forces, Russia, control, most countries, Crimea · **What happens:** take, say, join, be · **To what, where:** 2014, Russia, part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Russian forces, Russia, control, most countries), 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:11
# text = In 2014 Russian forces took control of Crimea and Russia said it had joined Russia after a vote; most countries and a UN General Assembly vote said Crimea is still part of Ukraine.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nummod
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Crimea	Crimea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
15	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
21	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
26	Assembly	Assembly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	Crimea	Crimea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	ccomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **take** | past | Russian forces | 2014 |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Russia |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **join** | past · perfect | control | Russia |  |  | after a vote |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent russia=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | most countries and a Assembly vote |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Crimea | part |  |  | still | of Ukraine | tree rules |

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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:11`.

**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 ×3, 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.

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

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