The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 15
The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are Crown Dependencies, not part of the UK, and 14 British Overseas Territories, such as Gibraltar, Bermuda and the Falkland Islands, remain from the empire; Gibraltar, British since 1704, guards the entrance to the Mediterranean.
Who acts: Isle, 14 British Overseas Territories, Gibraltar · What happens: be, remain, guard · To what, where: Crown Dependencies, empire, entrance
This is a sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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 (Isle, 14 British Overseas Territories, Gibraltar), 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 Isle | det |
| 2 | Isle | isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Dependencies | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Man | case |
| 4 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Isle | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jersey | punct |
| 6 | Jersey | Jersey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Isle | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Guernsey | cc |
| 8 | Guernsey | guernsey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Dependencies | cop |
| 10 | Crown | Crown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Dependencies | compound |
| 11 | Dependencies | dependency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 remain | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 part | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 part | advmod |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Dependencies | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 UK | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 UK | det |
| 17 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Territories | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Territories | cc |
| 20 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 Territories | nummod |
| 21 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Territories | amod |
| 22 | Overseas | Overseas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Territories | compound |
| 23 | Territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 remain | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Gibraltar | punct |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 27 Gibraltar | case |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 such | fixed |
| 27 | Gibraltar | Gibraltar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Territories | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Bermuda | punct |
| 29 | Bermuda | Bermuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Gibraltar | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Islands | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Islands | det |
| 32 | Falkland | Falkland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Islands | compound |
| 33 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 Gibraltar | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Dependencies | punct |
| 35 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 empire | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 empire | det |
| 38 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 remain | obl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 Gibraltar | punct |
| 40 | Gibraltar | Gibraltar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 guards | nsubj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 British | punct |
| 42 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 empire | conj |
| 43 | since | since | ADP | _ | 44 1704 | case |
| 44 | 1704 | 1704 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 British | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 guards | punct |
| 46 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 empire | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 entrance | det |
| 48 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 guards | obj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 Mediterranean | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Mediterranean | det |
| 51 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 entrance | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Dependencies | 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 | is a | present | the Isle of Man and Guernsey and Jersey | Crown Dependencies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | present | 14 British Overseas Territories such Gibraltar and Bermuda and the Falkland Islands | the empire | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | guard | present | Gibraltar | the entrance | to the Mediterranean | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Beneficiary |
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:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:15.
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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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