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title: The UN reported that more than 12 million people in Sudan were force… — The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others · tree and pragmatics
description: The UN reported that more than 12 million people in Sudan were forced from their homes, many fleeing to neighbouring countries such as Chad and Egypt. Who acts: UN, many. A sentence of the lesson «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with it
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# The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others, sentence 8

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The UN reported that more than 12 million people in Sudan were forced from their homes, many fleeing to neighbouring countries such as Chad and Egypt.

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**Who acts:** UN, many · **What happens:** report, force, flee · **To what, where:** million people, homes, neighbouring countries

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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 (UN, many), 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:8
# text = The UN reported that more than 12 million people in Sudan were forced from their homes, many fleeing to neighbouring countries such as Chad and Egypt.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fleeing	flee	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	neighbouring	neighbour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	Chad	Chad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **report** | past | the UN |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **force** | past · passive |  | million people in Sudan |  | people's homes |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **flee** | gerund | many |  |  | neighbouring countries such Chad and Egypt |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location |

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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:8`.

**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.

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