Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 6

Canada has two official languages, English and French, and most people in Quebec speak French because it began as New France, founded with Quebec City in 1608.

Who acts: Canada, most people, land · What happens: have, speak, begin, found · To what, where: two official languages, French, New France, 1608 · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Canada, most people, land), 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	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 languages	nummod
4	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 languages	amod
5	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 English	punct
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 languages	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 French	cc
9	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 English	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 speak	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 speak	cc
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 speak	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Quebec	case
15	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 people	nmod
16	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
17	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 speak	obj
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 began	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 speak	advcl
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 France	case
22	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 France	amod
23	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 began	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 founded	punct
25	founded	found	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 France	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 City	case
27	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 City	compound
28	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 founded	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 1608	case
30	1608	1608	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 founded	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Canada	two official languages			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient
2	speak speech: other	present	most people in Quebec	French			tree rules
3	begin	past	land			as New France	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	found	participle		New France not said here	1608	with Quebec City	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with city=Instrument

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:6.

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): R6-punct-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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