How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 16

The Soviet Union, the communist state that grew out of the Russian Empire, broke up into 15 countries in 1991, including Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia and the Baltic states.

Who acts: communist state, Soviet Union · What happens: grow out, break up · To what, where: Russian Empire, 15 countries

This is a sentence of the lesson «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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 (communist state, Soviet Union), 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	3 Union	det
2	Soviet	Soviet	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Union	compound
3	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 broke	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 state	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 state	det
6	communist	communist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 state	amod
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Union	appos
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 state	acl:relcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	14 Empire	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 Empire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Empire	det
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Empire	amod
14	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grew	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Union	punct
16	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 broke	compound:prt
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 countries	case
19	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 countries	nummod
20	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 broke	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 1991	case
22	1991	1991	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 broke	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Ukraine	punct
24	including	include	ADP	_	25 Ukraine	case
25	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 broke	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Kazakhstan	punct
27	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Ukraine	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Georgia	punct
29	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Ukraine	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 states	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 states	det
32	Baltic	baltic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 states	amod
33	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 Ukraine	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 broke	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	grow out	past	the communist state	the Russian Empire					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location empire=Theme
2	break up	past	the Soviet Union					into 15 countries result; in 1991; include Ukraine and Kazakhstan and Georgia and the Baltic states	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into country=Result

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:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson:16.

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): R8-pos-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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