--- title: Some words are fought over: South Africa accused Israel of genocide… — Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported · tree and pragmatics description: Some words are fought over: South Africa accused Israel of genocide at the UN's top court, and some UN experts and rights groups used the word; Israel and its supporters strongly reject it and call the war self-defence against Hamas. Who acts: South Africa, UN experts, 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 (South Africa, UN experts, 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:8 # text = Some words are fought over: South Africa accused Israel of genocide at the UN's top court, and some UN experts and rights groups used the word; Israel and its supporters strongly reject it and call the war self-defence against Hamas. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 fought fight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 over over ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 accused accuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 genocide genocide NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 UN UN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 22 UN UN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 rights right NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 compound _ _ 26 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 31 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 supporters supporter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 35 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 reject reject VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 42 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ _ 44 defence defence NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 45 against against ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Hamas Hamas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **fight over** | present · passive | | some words | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | | 2 | **accuse** | past | South Africa | Israel | | the UN's top court | | of genocide | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent israel=Theme of genocide=Attribute | | 3 | **use** | past | some UN experts and rights groups | the word | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 4 | **reject** | infinitive | Israel and group's supporters | group | | | | strongly *property* | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **call** | present | Israel and group's supporters *not said here* | the war self defence | | | | against Hamas | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent defence=Recipient | 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:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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