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title: The sunflower is Ukraine's national flower and became a symbol of su… — Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sunflower is Ukraine's national flower and became a symbol of support and hope around the world. Who acts: sunflower. 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 the pragmatics of e
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# Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives, sentence 17

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The sunflower is Ukraine's national flower and became a symbol of support and hope around the world.

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**Who acts:** sunflower · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** national flower, symbol

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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 (sunflower), 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:17
# text = The sunflower is Ukraine's national flower and became a symbol of support and hope around the world.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the sunflower | Ukraine's national flower |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | the sunflower *not said here* | a symbol of support and hope |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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**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:17`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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