Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth, sentence 12

The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary group of 56 countries, most of which were once part of the British Empire, though some members, such as Rwanda and Mozambique, never were.

Who acts: Commonwealth, most members · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: voluntary group

This is a sentence of the lesson «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» 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 (Commonwealth, most members), 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 Commonwealth	det
2	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 group	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Nations	case
4	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Commonwealth	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 group	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 group	det
7	voluntary	voluntary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 group	amod
8	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 countries	case
10	56	56	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 countries	nummod
11	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 group	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 members	punct
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 members	amod
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 part	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 most	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 part	cop
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 part	advmod
18	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 most	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 Empire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Empire	det
21	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Empire	amod
22	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 part	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 were	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 were	mark
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 members	det
26	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 were	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 members	punct
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	30 Rwanda	case
29	as	as	ADP	_	28 such	fixed
30	Rwanda	Rwanda	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 members	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Mozambique	cc
32	Mozambique	Mozambique	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Rwanda	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 were	punct
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 were	advmod
35	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 group	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 group	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Commonwealth of Nations	a voluntary group	of 56 countries	tree rules
2	is	past			of part; of the British Empire; once property	tree rules
3	not be	past	some most members such Rwanda and Mozambique			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:12.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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