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title: On 7 October 2023 Hamas fighters broke into southern Israel; news re… — Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported · tree and pragmatics
description: On 7 October 2023 Hamas fighters broke into southern Israel; news reports said about 1,200 people were killed, most of them civilians, and about 250 were taken to Gaza as hostages. Who acts: Hamas fighters, news reports, most. A sentence of the lesson «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely repor
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# Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported, sentence 11

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On 7 October 2023 Hamas fighters broke into southern Israel; news reports said about 1,200 people were killed, most of them civilians, and about 250 were taken to Gaza as hostages.

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**Who acts:** Hamas fighters, news reports, most · **What happens:** break, say, kill, civilian, take · **To what, where:** southern Israel, 1,200 people, 250, Gaza · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported» 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 (Hamas fighters, news reports, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:026-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported.lesson:11
# text = On 7 October 2023 Hamas fighters broke into southern Israel; news reports said about 1,200 people were killed, most of them civilians, and about 250 were taken to Gaza as hostages.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 026-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	Hamas	Hamas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fighters	fighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	1,200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	civilians	civilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	250	250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	hostages	hostage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	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 | **break** | past | Hamas fighters |  |  |  | october | into southern Israel *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into israel=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | news reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **kill** | past · passive |  | 1,200 people and civilians |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **civilian** |  | most of peoples |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | past · passive |  | 250 | Gaza |  |  | as hostages | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to gaza=Destination |

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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): R5-strong ×3, 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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