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title: When war comes to your town, staying can be deadly, so millions of U… — Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's… · tree and pragmatics
description: When war comes to your town, staying can be deadly, so millions of Ukrainians fled abroad after the full-scale invasion in 2022, many to countries like Poland, Ireland, the UK and Canada, news reports said. Who acts: war, staying, millions, news reports. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine: refugees, 
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# Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives, sentence 0

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When war comes to your town, staying can be deadly, so millions of Ukrainians fled abroad after the full-scale invasion in 2022, many to countries like Poland, Ireland, the UK and Canada, news reports said.

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**Who acts:** war, staying, millions, news reports · **What happens:** come, stay, be, flee, say · **To what, where:** town · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives» 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 (war, staying, millions, news reports), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:025-ukraine-refugees-aid-sanctions-and-childrens-lives.lesson:0
# text = When war comes to your town, staying can be deadly, so millions of Ukrainians fled abroad after the full-scale invasion in 2022, many to countries like Poland, Ireland, the UK and Canada, news reports said.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 025-ukraine-refugees-aid-sanctions-and-childrens-lives.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
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Ukrainians	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	ccomp	_	_
18	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:nsubj
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **come** | present | war |  |  | your town |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | can | staying |  |  |  |  | deadly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **flee** | past | millions of Ukrainians |  |  |  | after the scale invasion in 2022 | abroad *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | news reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:025-ukraine-refugees-aid-sanctions-and-childrens-lives.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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