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title: The UN and Ukraine reported that many Ukrainian children were taken… — Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's… · tree and pragmatics
description: The UN and Ukraine reported that many Ukrainian children were taken to Russia from areas Russia controlled; Russia's government said it moved children to keep them safe. Who acts: UN, Russia, government. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives» of the politic
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# Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives, sentence 12

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The UN and Ukraine reported that many Ukrainian children were taken to Russia from areas Russia controlled; Russia's government said it moved children to keep them safe.

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**Who acts:** UN, Russia, government · **What happens:** report, take, control, say, move, keep · **To what, where:** many Ukrainian children, Russia, areas, children · **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 (UN, Russia, government), 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:12
# text = The UN and Ukraine reported that many Ukrainian children were taken to Russia from areas Russia controlled; Russia's government said it moved children to keep them safe.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	controlled	control	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **report** | past | the UN and Ukraine |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive |  | many Ukrainian children | Russia | areas |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme to russia=Destination from area=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **control** | past | Russia | areas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Russia's government |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **move** | past | government | children |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme child=Result |
| 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | government *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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