--- title: UN agencies reported severe hunger in Gaza, and in August 2025 food… — Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported · tree and pragmatics description: UN agencies reported severe hunger in Gaza, and in August 2025 food experts used by the UN said there was famine in Gaza City; Israel disputed this and said it let in a lot of food and Hamas stole aid. Who acts: UN agencies, 2025 food experts, famine, Israel. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UN agencies, 2025 food experts, famine, Israel), 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:15 # text = UN agencies reported severe hunger in Gaza, and in August 2025 food experts used by the UN said there was famine in Gaza City; Israel disputed this and said it let in a lot of food and Hamas stole aid. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 UN UN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 agencies agency NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 severe severe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Gaza Gaza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 15 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 UN UN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl:agent _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 Gaza Gaza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 disputed dispute VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 29 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 in in ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 Hamas Hamas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 42 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past | UN agencies | severe hunger | | Gaza and August | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunger=Patient | | 2 | **use** | participle | | 2025 food experts *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | 2025 food experts | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** | past | famine in Gaza City | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **dispute** | past | Israel | this | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Israel *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **let in** | past | famine | a lot of food | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 8 | **steal** | past | Hamas | aid | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aid=Theme | 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. **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:026-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported.lesson:15`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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