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title: Reports said 2023 and 2024 were the deadliest years on record for ai… — The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others · tree and pragmatics
description: Reports said 2023 and 2024 were the deadliest years on record for aid workers, and the rules of war say aid workers must be protected. Who acts: Reports, 2023, rules, war. A sentence of the lesson «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with i
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# The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 17

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Reports said 2023 and 2024 were the deadliest years on record for aid workers, and the rules of war say aid workers must be protected.

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**Who acts:** Reports, 2023, rules, war · **What happens:** say, be, protect, rule · **To what, where:** deadliest years, record, aid workers · **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 (Reports, 2023, rules, war), 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:17
# text = Reports said 2023 and 2024 were the deadliest years on record for aid workers, and the rules of war say aid workers must be protected.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	deadliest	deadly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	ccomp	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
22	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | 2023 | the deadliest years |  | record for aid workers |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the rules of war |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **protect** | must · passive |  | aid workers |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **rule** |  | war |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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:17`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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