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title: News reports said armed gangs took over much of Port-au-Prince, Hait… — The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others · tree and pragmatics
description: News reports said armed gangs took over much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, and a police mission led by Kenya came to help. Who acts: News reports, armed gangs, police mission. A sentence of the lesson «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» of the politics course of Mova's primary sch
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# The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 16

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News reports said armed gangs took over much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, and a police mission led by Kenya came to help.

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**Who acts:** News reports, armed gangs, police mission · **What happens:** say, take over, lead, come, help · **To what, where:** much, police mission · **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 (News reports, armed gangs, police mission), 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:16
# text = News reports said armed gangs took over much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, and a police mission led by Kenya came to help.
# 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 ×2
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	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gangs	gang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	au	au	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl:agent	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | News reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take over** | past | armed gangs | much |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | participle |  | a police mission *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **come** | past | a police mission |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | a police mission *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «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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**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:028-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others.lesson:16`.

**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 ×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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