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# Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes, sentence 16

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Several countries dropped food from planes over Gaza when trucks could not bring in enough; aid groups said airdrops carry far less than trucks, cost more and can be dangerous for people below.

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**Who acts:** Several countries, trucks, aid groups, airdrops · **What happens:** drop, not bring in, say, carry, cost, be · **To what, where:** food, planes, less, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes» 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 (Several countries, trucks, aid groups, airdrops), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:030-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes.lesson:16
# text = Several countries dropped food from planes over Gaza when trucks could not bring in enough; aid groups said airdrops carry far less than trucks, cost more and can be dangerous for people below.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 030-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	planes	plane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
10	trucks	truck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
20	airdrops	airdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	trucks	truck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
32	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	below	below	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **drop** | past | Several countries | food |  | planes |  | over Gaza | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme from plane=Destination over gaza=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **bring in** | could | trucks |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | aid groups |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **carry** | present | airdrops | less |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme |
| 5 | **cost** | present | airdrops *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |
| 6 | **is** | can | airdrops *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for people; dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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:030-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes.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, R7-rel-agree ×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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