--- title: News reports said the rebel group M23 took the city of Goma in Janua… — The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others · tree and pragmatics description: News reports said the rebel group M23 took the city of Goma in January 2025; UN experts said Rwanda backed M23, which Rwanda denied, and the two countries signed a peace deal in Washington in June 2025. Who acts: News reports, rebel group, UN experts, Rwanda. 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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 (News reports, rebel group, UN experts, Rwanda), 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:14 # text = News reports said the rebel group M23 took the city of Goma in January 2025; UN experts said Rwanda backed M23, which Rwanda denied, and the two countries signed a peace deal in Washington in June 2025. # 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 1 News news NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 rebel rebel NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 7 M23 M23 PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Goma Goma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 UN UN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 20 Rwanda Rwanda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 backed back VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 M23 M23 PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 25 Rwanda Rwanda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 denied deny VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 signed sign VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Washington Washington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 40 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 flat _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | News reports | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** | past | the rebel group | the city of Goma | | | january | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | UN experts | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **back** | past | Rwanda | M23 | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent m23=Agent | | 5 | **deny** | past | Rwanda | M23 | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | | 6 | **sign** | past | the two countries | a peace deal | | Washington | june | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent deal=Theme in washington=Destination | 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. 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