Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 2
The game shows sugar islands as rich prizes, but it hides the people forced to grow the sugar: most Jamaicans today descend from Africans enslaved on British plantations.
Who acts: game, people, most Jamaicans · What happens: show, hide, force, grow, descend, enslave · To what, where: sugar islands, people, sugar, Africans, British plantations
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 (game, people, most Jamaicans), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 islands | compound |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 prizes | case |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 prizes | amod |
| 8 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hides | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hides | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hides | nsubj |
| 12 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shows | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hides | obj |
| 15 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 people | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 grow | mark |
| 17 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 forced | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sugar | det |
| 19 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grow | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Jamaicans | punct |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 Jamaicans | amod |
| 22 | Jamaicans | jamaican | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 descend | nsubj |
| 23 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 descend | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shows | parataxis |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Africans | case |
| 26 | Africans | african | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 descend | obl |
| 27 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 Africans | acl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 plantations | case |
| 29 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 plantations | amod |
| 30 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 enslaved | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the game | sugar islands | as rich prizes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent island=Recipient | |||
| 2 | hide | present | game | the people | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 3 | force | participle | the people not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | grow | to-infinitive | the people not said here | the sugar | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sugar=Theme | ||||
| 5 | descend | present | most Jamaicans | Africans | today | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from african=Location | |||
| 6 | enslave | participle | Africans not said here | British plantations | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:2.
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 ×3, 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.
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