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title: On 7 October 2023 fighters from Hamas, the armed group that ran Gaza… — Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported · tree and pragmatics
description: On 7 October 2023 fighters from Hamas, the armed group that ran Gaza, attacked the south of Israel; news reports said about 1,200 people were killed, most of them ordinary people, and about 250 were taken to Gaza as hostages. Who acts: armed group, news reports, most. A sentence of the lesson «Israe
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# Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported, sentence 2

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On 7 October 2023 fighters from Hamas, the armed group that ran Gaza, attacked the south of Israel; news reports said about 1,200 people were killed, most of them ordinary people, and about 250 were taken to Gaza as hostages.

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**Who acts:** armed group, news reports, most · **What happens:** run, attack, say, kill, people, take · **To what, where:** Gaza, south, 7, 1,200 people, 250 · **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 (armed group, 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:2
# text = On 7 October 2023 fighters from Hamas, the armed group that ran Gaza, attacked the south of Israel; news reports said about 1,200 people were killed, most of them ordinary people, 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	_	2	case	_	_
2	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
3	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
5	fighters	fighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Hamas	Hamas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	1,200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obj
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:amod
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	about	about	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	250	250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	hostages	hostage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **run** | past | the armed group | Gaza |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaza=Agent |
| 2 | **attack** | past |  | the south of Israel |  | 7  October |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent south=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | news reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **kill** | past · passive |  | 1,200 people and ordinary people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **people** |  | most of peoples |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **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.

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