Canada: a short story, sentence 4

It also has a painful story, the residential schools, for which Canada has apologised, and today it calls itself a mosaic of cultures under the red maple leaf.

Who acts: railway, Canada · What happens: have, apologise, call · To what, where: painful story, railway · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (railway, Canada), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 has	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 has	advmod
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 schools	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 schools	det
9	residential	residential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 schools	amod
10	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 story	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 apologised	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 apologised	obl
14	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 apologised	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 apologised	aux
16	apologised	apologise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 schools	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 calls	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 calls	cc
19	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 calls	obl:unmarked
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 calls	nsubj
21	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
22	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 calls	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mosaic	det
24	mosaic	mosaic	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 calls	xcomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 cultures	case
26	cultures	culture	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mosaic	nmod
27	under	under	ADP	_	31 leaf	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 leaf	det
29	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 leaf	amod
30	maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leaf	compound
31	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cultures	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	railway	a painful story			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
2	apologise speech: apologize	present · perfect	Canada			for the residential schools	tree rules
3	call	present	railway	railway	today		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient

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:4.

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): 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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