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title: Imagine starting a new school where you hardly speak the language, y… — Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's… · tree and pragmatics
description: Imagine starting a new school where you hardly speak the language, your gran is far away, and in the evening you log on to your old school as well. Who acts: you, gran. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives» of the politics course of Mova's primary school w
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# Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives, sentence 1

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Imagine starting a new school where you hardly speak the language, your gran is far away, and in the evening you log on to your old school as well.

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**Who acts:** you, gran · **What happens:** imagine, start, speak, be, log on · **To what, where:** new school, language · **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 (you, gran), 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:1
# text = Imagine starting a new school where you hardly speak the language, your gran is far away, and in the evening you log on to your old school as well.
# 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): no change
1	Imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	log	log	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	24	advmod	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	fixed	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | gerund | you *not said here* | a new school |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Eventuality |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | you | the language |  |  |  | hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | your gran |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **log on** | present | you |  |  |  | evening | to your old school | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): no change. **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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