The United States: a short story, sentence 16

After helping to win both World Wars, the USA became one of the most powerful countries in the world, and its films, music and technology spread worldwide.

Who acts: USA, films · What happens: help, win, become, spread, film · To what, where: World Wars

This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States: a short story» of the history 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 (USA, films), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 helping	mark
2	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 became	advcl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 win	mark
4	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helping	xcomp
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 Wars	det
6	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Wars	compound
7	Wars	War	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 win	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 helping	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 USA	det
10	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 became	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 countries	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 countries	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 powerful	advmod
16	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 countries	amod
17	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 countries	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spread	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 spread	cc
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 films	nmod:poss
24	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 spread	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 music	punct
26	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 films	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 technology	cc
28	technology	technology	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 films	conj
29	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 became	conj
30	worldwide	worldwide	ADV	_	29 spread	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	gerund	the USA not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	win	to-infinitive	the USA not said here	both World Wars		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality
3	become	past	the USA			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	spread	past	USA's films and music and technology		worldwide property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	film		USA			nom film «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:history:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:16.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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