The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 3

Football tells the story: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland play as four teams, because the UK is made of four nations.

Who acts: Football, England · What happens: tell, play, make · To what, where: story, UK · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Football, England), 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	Football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 England	punct
6	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 play	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Scotland	punct
8	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 England	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Wales	punct
10	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 England	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Northern	cc
12	Northern	Northern	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 England	conj
13	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Northern	flat
14	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	ccomp
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 teams	case
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 teams	nummod
17	teams	team	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 play	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 made	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 UK	det
21	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 made	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 made	aux:pass
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 play	advcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 nations	case
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 nations	nummod
26	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 made	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Football	the story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
2	play	present	England and Scotland and Wales and Northern		as four teams	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	present · passive		the UK	of four nations	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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:3.

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. 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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