Canada: a short story, sentence 15
Canadian soldiers fought in both World Wars, for example at Vimy Ridge in 1917 and on D-Day in 1944, which gave Canada a stronger sense of being its own nation.
Who acts: Canadian soldiers, stronger sense · What happens: fight, give, be · To what, where: World Wars, stronger sense, Canada, own nation
This is a sentence of the lesson «Canada: 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 (Canadian soldiers, stronger sense), 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 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 soldiers | amod |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fought | nsubj |
| 3 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Wars | case |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Wars | det |
| 6 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wars | compound |
| 7 | Wars | War | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 fought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 example | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 example | case |
| 10 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fought | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Ridge | case |
| 12 | Vimy | Vimy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ridge | compound |
| 13 | Ridge | ridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fought | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 1917 | case |
| 15 | 1917 | 1917 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 fought | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Day | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Day | case |
| 18 | D | D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Day | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 D | punct |
| 20 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 1917 | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1944 | case |
| 22 | 1944 | 1944 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 fought | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fought | parataxis |
| 26 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | iobj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sense | det |
| 28 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 sense | amod |
| 29 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obj |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 34 nation | mark |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 nation | cop |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 nation | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 nation | amod |
| 34 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sense | acl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Canadian soldiers | both World Wars | for example; at Vimy Ridge; in 1917 and D Day; in 1944 | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | give | past | a stronger sense | Canada | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent canada=Recipient sense=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | a stronger sense not said here | sense's own nation | tree rules |
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:039-canada-a-short-story.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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