--- title: A war began in Sudan in April 2023 between the country's army and a… — The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others · tree and pragmatics description: A war began in Sudan in April 2023 between the country's army and a powerful armed group called the RSF, news reports said, and each side says the other started it. Who acts: war, news reports, side, other. 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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 (war, news reports, side, other), 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:7 # text = A war began in Sudan in April 2023 between the country's army and a powerful armed group called the RSF, news reports said, and each side says the other started it. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Sudan Sudan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod:unmarked 8 2023 2023 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 9 between between ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 armed armed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 RSF RSF PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 nsubj _ _ 33 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | a war | | | Sudan | april | in 2023 between the country's army and a powerful armed group | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **call** | participle | | a powerful armed group *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | news reports | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | each side | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **start** | past | the other | side | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:politics:028-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others.lesson:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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