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title: In 2023 the International Criminal Court, a world court that tries p… — Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2023 the International Criminal Court, a world court that tries people for the worst crimes, asked for the arrest of Russia's president and another official over the taking of children, it was reported; some children have been brought home, and Ukraine says many thousands are still in Russia. Who
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# Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives, sentence 13

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In 2023 the International Criminal Court, a world court that tries people for the worst crimes, asked for the arrest of Russia's president and another official over the taking of children, it was reported; some children have been brought home, and Ukraine says many thousands are still in Russia.

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**Who acts:** world court, International Criminal Court, children, Ukraine, many thousands · **What happens:** try, ask, report, bring, say, be · **To what, where:** people, 2023, Court, Russia, president, 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 (world court, International Criminal Court, children, Ukraine), 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:13
# text = In 2023 the International Criminal Court, a world court that tries people for the worst crimes, asked for the arrest of Russia's president and another official over the taking of children, it was reported; some children have been brought home, and Ukraine says many thousands are still in Russia.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	International	International	PROPN	NNP	_	6	amod	_	_
5	Criminal	Criminal	PROPN	NNP	_	6	flat	_	_
6	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
19	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	arrest	arrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
28	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	official	official	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	taking	taking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
40	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
42	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	aux	_	_
44	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	parataxis	_	_
45	home	home	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
50	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
52	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
53	still	still	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	ccomp	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **try** | present | a world court | people |  |  |  | for the worst crimes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent people=Theme for crime=Attribute |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the International Criminal Court |  |  | 2023 |  | for the arrest of Russia's president and another official; over the taking of children | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **report** | past · passive |  | Court |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive | some children |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ukraine |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | many thousands |  |  | Russia | still |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **arrest** |  |  | Russia's president and another official |  |  |  |  | nom arrest «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **take** |  |  | children |  |  |  |  | nom taking «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): R1-cc-next ×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.

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