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title: During the war Ukrainian cities have often been hit by missiles and… — Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: During the war Ukrainian cities have often been hit by missiles and drones, and people use sirens and alarm apps to go to shelters such as basements and metro stations, it was reported. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine» of the politics course of Mov
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# Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sentence 12

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During the war Ukrainian cities have often been hit by missiles and drones, and people use sirens and alarm apps to go to shelters such as basements and metro stations, it was reported.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** hit, use, go, report · **To what, where:** Ukrainian cities, sirens, shelters, war

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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 (people), 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:12
# text = During the war Ukrainian cities have often been hit by missiles and drones, and people use sirens and alarm apps to go to shelters such as basements and metro stations, it was reported.
# 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 ×4
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	missiles	missile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	drones	drone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	sirens	siren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	shelters	shelter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	basements	basement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	metro	metro	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	stations	station	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	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 | **hit** | present · perfect · passive |  | Ukrainian cities |  |  | during the war | by missiles and drones; often *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme by missile=Destination |
| 2 | **use** | present | people | sirens and alarm apps |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siren=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  | shelters such basements and metro stations |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shelter=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **report** | past · passive |  | war |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |

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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): R5-strong ×4. **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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