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title: Hostages' families campaigned to bring them home; some hostages were… — Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported · tree and pragmatics
description: Hostages' families campaigned to bring them home; some hostages were freed in deals, a few were rescued by soldiers, and some died while held, news reports said. Who acts: families, soldiers, some, news reports. A sentence of the lesson «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported» of the pol
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# Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported, sentence 16

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Hostages' families campaigned to bring them home; some hostages were freed in deals, a few were rescued by soldiers, and some died while held, news reports said.

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**Who acts:** families, soldiers, some, news reports · **What happens:** campaign, bring, free, rescue, die, hold · **To what, where:** families, hostages, deals, few · **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 (families, soldiers, some, news reports), 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:16
# text = Hostages' families campaigned to bring them home; some hostages were freed in deals, a few were rescued by soldiers, and some died while held, news reports said.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Hostages	hostage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	campaigned	campaign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	hostages	hostage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	deals	deal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	rescued	rescue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
26	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:mark
28	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **campaign** | past | Hostages's families |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Hostages's families *not said here* | families *= family* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **free** | past · passive |  | some hostages |  | deals |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 4 | **rescue** | past · passive | soldiers | a few |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | past | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **hold** | participle | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | news reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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