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title: In one place it started earlier: in 2014 Russian forces took control… — Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: In one place it started earlier: in 2014 Russian forces took control of Crimea, and most of the world, in a UN vote, said Crimea is still part of Ukraine. Who acts: army, Russian forces, most, Crimea. A sentence of the lesson «Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine» of the politics course of Mova's
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# Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sentence 6

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In one place it started earlier: in 2014 Russian forces took control of Crimea, and most of the world, in a UN vote, said Crimea is still part of Ukraine.

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**Who acts:** army, Russian forces, most, Crimea · **What happens:** start, take, say, be · **To what, where:** one place, 2014, UN vote, 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 (army, Russian forces, most, Crimea), 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:6
# text = In one place it started earlier: in 2014 Russian forces took control of Crimea, and most of the world, in a UN 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	2014	2014	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nummod
10	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
13	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Crimea	crimea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	Crimea	Crimea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
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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- 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 | **start** | past | army |  |  | one place |  | early *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take** | past | Russian forces | 2014 |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | most of the world |  |  | a UN vote |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in vote=Manner |
| 4 | **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:6`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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