Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 0

English spread from one small island to more than 50 countries mainly through trade, settlement and empire, the same colonial race you play out in EU5.

Who acts: English, you · What happens: spread, play out · To what, where: one small island, same colonial race, EU5

This is a sentence of the lesson «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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 (English, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 island	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 island	nummod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 island	amod
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 countries	case
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	10 50	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 more	fixed
10	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 countries	nummod
11	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spread	obl
12	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	14 trade	advmod
13	through	through	ADP	_	14 trade	case
14	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 settlement	punct
16	settlement	settlement	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trade	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 empire	cc
18	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trade	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spread	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 race	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 race	amod
22	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 race	amod
23	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	appos
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 play	nsubj
25	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 race	acl:relcl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 play	compound:prt
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 EU5	case
28	EU5	EU5	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 play	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spread	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	English			one small island		to 50 countries; through trade and settlement and empire	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through trade=Location
2	play out	present	you	the same colonial race not said here		EU5			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme

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.

Licence: CC 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:geography:010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson:0.

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, 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.

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