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title: Think of a playground: whatever else two children argue about, who c… — Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of a playground: whatever else two children argue about, who crossed into the other's space is a fact you can check. Who acts: you, two children, fact. 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 an
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# Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sentence 4

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Think of a playground: whatever else two children argue about, who crossed into the other's space is a fact you can check.

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**Who acts:** you, two children, fact · **What happens:** think, argue, cross, be, check · **To what, where:** whatever, space, fact

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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 (you, two children, fact), 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:4
# text = Think of a playground: whatever else two children argue about, who crossed into the other's space is a fact you can check.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	csubj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a playground | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | two children | whatever |  |  |  | about *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic |
| 3 | **cross** | past | a fact |  |  | the other's space |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into space=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | a fact |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **check** | can | you | a fact *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |

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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:4`.

**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 ×2, 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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