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title: In 2021 Myanmar's army took power in a coup and a civil war followed… — The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2021 Myanmar's army took power in a coup and a civil war followed; a big earthquake in March 2025 was made harder to deal with by the fighting. Who acts: army, civil war, fighting, big earthquake. A sentence of the lesson «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» of the politics course of 
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# The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 15

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In 2021 Myanmar's army took power in a coup and a civil war followed; a big earthquake in March 2025 was made harder to deal with by the fighting.

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**Who acts:** army, civil war, fighting, big earthquake · **What happens:** take, follow, make, deal · **To what, where:** power, 2021, big earthquake

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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 (army, civil war, fighting, big earthquake), 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:15
# text = In 2021 Myanmar's army took power in a coup and a civil war followed; a big earthquake in March 2025 was made harder to deal with by the fighting.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	2025	2025	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
25	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:agent	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **take** | past | Myanmar's army | power |  | 2021 |  | in a coup | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent power=Value in 2021=Location |
| 2 | **follow** | past | a civil war |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive | the fighting | a big earthquake in March  2025 |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 4 | **deal** | to-infinitive | a big earthquake in March  2025 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: 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): no change. **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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