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title: News reports said sanctions made life harder for Russia's economy, b… — Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps… · tree and pragmatics
description: News reports said sanctions made life harder for Russia's economy, but Russia found other buyers for its oil, so they hurt but did not stop the war. Who acts: News reports, sanctions, Russia. A sentence of the lesson «Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes» of the politics cours
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# Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes, sentence 18

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News reports said sanctions made life harder for Russia's economy, but Russia found other buyers for its oil, so they hurt but did not stop the war.

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**Who acts:** News reports, sanctions, Russia · **What happens:** say, make, find, hurt, not stop · **To what, where:** life, other buyers, war · **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 (News reports, sanctions, Russia), 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:18
# text = News reports said sanctions made life harder for Russia's economy, but Russia found other buyers for its oil, so they hurt but did not stop the war.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
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|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sanctions	sanction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	buyers	buyer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **make** | past | sanctions | life |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product |
| 3 | **find** | past | Russia | other buyers |  |  |  | for country's oil | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent buyer=Theme for oil=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **hurt** | past | sanctions *= sanction* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **stop** | past · do-support | sanctions *= sanction* *not said here* | the war |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality war=Eventuality |

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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:18`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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