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title: Two reconnaissance squadrons use light aircraft, three helicopter sq… — Iraq · tree and pragmatics
description: Two reconnaissance squadrons use light aircraft, three helicopter squadrons are used to move troops and one air transportation squadron uses C-130 transport aircraft to move troops, equipment, and supplies. Who acts: Two reconnaissance squadrons, one air. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Iraq» with its de
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# Iraq, sentence 305

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From Wikipedia, [«Iraq»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Two reconnaissance squadrons use light aircraft, three helicopter squadrons are used to move troops and one air transportation squadron uses C-130 transport aircraft to move troops, equipment, and supplies.

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**Who acts:** Two reconnaissance squadrons, one air · **What happens:** use, move · **To what, where:** light aircraft, three helicopter squadrons, troops, C transport aircraft

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Iraq». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two reconnaissance squadrons, one air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Iraq:305
# text = Two reconnaissance squadrons use light aircraft, three helicopter squadrons are used to move troops and one air transportation squadron uses C-130 transport aircraft to move troops, equipment, and supplies.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	reconnaissance	reconnaissance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	squadrons	squadron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	aircraft	aircraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	helicopter	helicopter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	squadrons	squadron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	transportation	transportation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	squadron	squadron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	130	130	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
25	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	aircraft	aircraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
29	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	equipment	equipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Two reconnaissance squadrons | light aircraft |  |  |  | supplies *obl* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aircraft=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | present · passive |  | three helicopter squadrons |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **move** | to-infinitive |  | troops |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent troops=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | present | one air and transportation squadron | C transport aircraft |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aircraft=Patient |
| 5 | **move** | to-infinitive | one air and transportation squadron *not said here* | troops and equipment |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent troops=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Iraq», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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