The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 6
Great Britain is the island holding England, Scotland and Wales, while the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland also includes Northern Ireland.
Who acts: Great Britain, island, United Kingdom · What happens: be, hold, include · To what, where: island, England, Northern Ireland
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 (Great Britain, island, United Kingdom), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Britain | amod |
| 2 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 island | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 island | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 island | acl |
| 7 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 holding | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Scotland | punct |
| 9 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 England | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Wales | cc |
| 11 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 England | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kingdom | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 includes | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Kingdom | det |
| 15 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Kingdom | amod |
| 16 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 includes | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Britain | case |
| 18 | Great | Great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Britain | amod |
| 19 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Kingdom | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Ireland | cc |
| 21 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Ireland | amod |
| 22 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Britain | conj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 includes | advmod |
| 24 | includes | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 island | advcl |
| 25 | Northern | Northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Ireland | amod |
| 26 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 includes | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 island | 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 | Great Britain | the island | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the island not said here | England and Scotland and Wales | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent england=Theme | ||||
| 3 | include | present | the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ireland=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:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.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): 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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