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title: Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; many… — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics
description: Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; many soldiers and civilians have been killed, and it was reported that millions had to leave their homes. Who acts: Russia, millions. A sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics course of Mov
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# Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 8

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Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; many soldiers and civilians have been killed, and it was reported that millions had to leave their homes.

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**Who acts:** Russia, millions · **What happens:** begin, kill, report, have, leave, invade · **To what, where:** scale invasion, many soldiers, invasion, homes, Ukraine

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics 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 (Russia, millions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:8
# text = Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; many soldiers and civilians have been killed, and it was reported that millions had to leave their homes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	civilians	civilian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Russia | a scale invasion of Ukraine |  |  | february |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invasion=Eventuality |
| 2 | **kill** | present · perfect · passive |  | many soldiers and civilians |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **report** | past · passive |  | invasion |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** | past | millions |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | to-infinitive | millions *not said here* | soldiers's homes |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 6 | **invade** |  |  | Ukraine |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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