The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, sentence 1

Ireland is the green island to the west of Great Britain, with Dublin as its capital; its frequent rain keeps the grass green all year.

Who acts: Ireland, frequent rain, capital · What happens: be, keep, rain · To what, where: green island, grass

This is a sentence of the lesson «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» of the world 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 (Ireland, frequent rain, capital), 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	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 island	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 island	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 island	det
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 island	amod
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 west	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 west	det
8	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 island	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Britain	case
10	Great	Great	PROPN	_	11 Britain	flat
11	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 west	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Dublin	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 Dublin	case
14	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 island	obl
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 capital	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 capital	nmod:poss
17	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Dublin	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 keeps	punct
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 rain	nmod:poss
20	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rain	amod
21	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keeps	nsubj
22	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 island	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 grass	det
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keeps	obj
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 keeps	xcomp
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 year	det
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 green	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 island	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Ireland	the green island	to the west of Great Britain; with Dublin as west's capital	tree rules
2	keep	present	capital's frequent rain	the grass	green property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
3	rain		capital			nom rain «phenomenon 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:world:045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.lesson:1.

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 ×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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