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title: In the US, the UK and Europe, lawmakers have argued for years about… — Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the US, the UK and Europe, lawmakers have argued for years about how much money and how many weapons to give Ukraine. Who acts: lawmakers. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives, sentence 11

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In the US, the UK and Europe, lawmakers have argued for years about how much money and how many weapons to give Ukraine.

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**Who acts:** lawmakers · **What happens:** argue, give · **To what, where:** Ukraine

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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 (lawmakers), 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:11
# text = In the US, the UK and Europe, lawmakers have argued for years about how much money and how many weapons to give Ukraine.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	lawmakers	lawmaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	iobj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · perfect | lawmakers |  |  |  | year | in the US and the UK and Europe | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | lawmakers *not said here* |  | Ukraine |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ukraine=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:025-ukraine-refugees-aid-sanctions-and-childrens-lives.lesson:11`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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