How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 6
The British Empire at its largest, around 1920, covered about a quarter of the world's land.
What happens: cover · To what, where: British Empire, 1920
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: 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 Empire | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Empire | amod |
| 3 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 1920 | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 largest | nmod:poss |
| 6 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 Empire | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Empire | punct |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 1920 | case |
| 9 | 1920 | 1920 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 covered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 quarter | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 quarter | det |
| 14 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 land | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 world | case |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quarter | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the British Empire world's largest | 1920 | tree rules |
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: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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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