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title: On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine… — Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine · tree and pragmatics
description: On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as widely reported, and millions of Ukrainians fled their homes. Who acts: Russia, 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 tr
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# Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sentence 8

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On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as widely reported, and millions of Ukrainians fled their homes.

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**Who acts:** Russia, millions · **What happens:** launch, report, flee, invade · **To what, where:** scale invasion, homes, Ukraine

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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 (Russia, 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:8
# text = On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as widely reported, and millions of Ukrainians fled 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ukrainians	ukrainian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **launch** | past | Russia | a scale invasion of Ukraine |  |  | february |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invasion=Theme |
| 2 | **report** | participle | Russia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flee** | past | millions of Ukrainians | Millions's homes |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **invade** |  |  | Ukraine |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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 ×1, R6-punct-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.

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