Canada: a short story, sentence 8

In 1759 the British won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québec, and France gave up Canada, but French Canadians kept their language, religion and laws.

Who acts: British, France, French Canadians · What happens: win, give up, keep · To what, where: Battle, 1759, Canada, language

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 (British, France, French Canadians), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1759	case
2	1759	1759	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 won	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 British	det
4	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 won	nsubj
5	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Battle	det
7	Battle	battle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 won	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Plains	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Plains	det
10	Plains	plain	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 Battle	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Abraham	case
12	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Plains	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 Québec	case
14	Québec	Québec	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 won	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
17	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 won	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 gave	compound:prt
20	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 kept	cc
23	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Canadians	amod
24	Canadians	canadian	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 kept	nsubj
25	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 won	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 language	nmod:poss
27	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kept	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 religion	punct
29	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 language	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 laws	cc
31	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 language	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 won	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	win	past	the British	the Battle of the Plains of Abraham	1759	at Québec	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent battle=Theme at québec=Asset
2	give up	past	France	Canada			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canada=Source
3	keep	past	French Canadians	Canadians's language and religion and laws			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=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:history:039-canada-a-short-story.lesson:8.

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 ×1, 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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