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title: «From the river to the sea» means the land from the Jordan River to… — Israel and Gaza at school and online · tree and pragmatics
description: «From the river to the sea» means the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean; many Palestinians and supporters say it means freedom and equal rights, while many Jewish people hear it as a call for Israel to disappear. Who acts: many Palestinians, land, many Jewish people, Israel. A sentence
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# Israel and Gaza at school and online, sentence 14

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«From the river to the sea» means the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean; many Palestinians and supporters say it means freedom and equal rights, while many Jewish people hear it as a call for Israel to disappear.

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**Who acts:** many Palestinians, land, many Jewish people, Israel · **What happens:** mean, say, hear, disappear · **To what, where:** land, river, freedom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Israel and Gaza at school and online» 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 (many Palestinians, land, many Jewish people, Israel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:027-israel-and-gaza-at-school-and-online.lesson:14
# text = «From the river to the sea» means the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean; many Palestinians and supporters say it means freedom and equal rights, while many Jewish people hear it as a call for Israel to disappear.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 027-israel-and-gaza-at-school-and-online.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
2	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Palestinians	Palestinian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc
23	supporters	supporter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
27	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
42	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:nmod
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  | the land |  | the river to the sea |  | from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | many Palestinians and supporters |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | land | freedom and equal rights |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Topic |
| 4 | **hear** | infinitive | many Jewish people | land |  |  |  | as a call | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **disappear** | to-infinitive | Israel |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:027-israel-and-gaza-at-school-and-online.lesson:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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