The United States, sentence 7

The United States began as 13 British colonies along the Atlantic coast, which declared independence on 4 July 1776 and were recognised as independent in 1783.

Who acts: United States, 13 British colonies · What happens: begin, declare, recognise · To what, where: independence, 1783

This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States» 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 (United States, 13 British colonies), 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 States	det
2	United	United	PROPN	_	3 States	flat
3	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 colonies	case
6	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 colonies	nummod
7	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 colonies	amod
8	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 began	obl
9	along	along	ADP	_	12 coast	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coast	det
11	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 coast	compound
12	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 colonies	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 declared	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 declared	nsubj
15	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 colonies	acl:relcl
16	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 declared	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 July	case
18	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 July	nummod
19	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 declared	obl
20	1776	1776	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 July	nmod:unmarked
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 recognised	cc
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 recognised	aux:pass
23	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 declared	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 independent	case
25	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 recognised	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 1783	case
27	1783	1783	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 recognised	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the United States				as 13 British colonies along the Atlantic coast	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	declare speech: other	past	13 British colonies along the Atlantic coast	independence		july		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute
3	recognise	past · passive	13 British colonies along the Atlantic coast not said here		1783		as independent	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as independent=Attribute

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:009-the-united-states.lesson:7.

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 ×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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