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title: The Houthis, an armed group that controls much of Yemen, attacked sh… — The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others · tree and pragmatics
description: The Houthis, an armed group that controls much of Yemen, attacked ships in the Red Sea, saying they acted for Gaza; the US and UK struck back, and many ships went the long way round Africa, news reports said. Who acts: armed group, Houthis, ships, US. A sentence of the lesson «The wars the news show
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# The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 11

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The Houthis, an armed group that controls much of Yemen, attacked ships in the Red Sea, saying they acted for Gaza; the US and UK struck back, and many ships went the long way round Africa, news reports said.

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**Who acts:** armed group, Houthis, ships, US, many ships, news reports · **What happens:** control, attack, say, act, strike back, go · **To what, where:** much, ships, Red Sea, long way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» 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, Houthis, ships, US), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:028-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others.lesson:11
# text = The Houthis, an armed group that controls much of Yemen, attacked ships in the Red Sea, saying they acted for Gaza; the US and UK struck back, and many ships went the long way round Africa, news reports said.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 028-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Houthis	Houthis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	controls	control	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obj
40	round	round	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
43	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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 | **control** | present | a armed group | much |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** | past | the Houthis | ships |  | the Red Sea |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Houthis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **act** | past | ships *= ship* |  |  |  |  | for Gaza | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **strike back** | past | the US and UK |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 6 | **go** | past | many ships | the long way round Africa |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

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