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title: In January 2020 Harry and Meghan announced they would step back as s… — The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move… · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 2020 Harry and Meghan announced they would step back as senior working royals, and they later moved to California; Harry is still a prince. Who acts: Harry, weddings. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» of the adul
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# The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 13

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In January 2020 Harry and Meghan announced they would step back as senior working royals, and they later moved to California; Harry is still a prince.

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**Who acts:** Harry, weddings · **What happens:** announce, step back, work, move, be · **To what, where:** California, prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book» of the adult life 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 (Harry, weddings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:13
# text = In January 2020 Harry and Meghan announced they would step back as senior working royals, and they later moved to California; Harry is still a prince.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Meghan	Meghan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	royals	royal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	later	later	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Harry and Meghan |  |  |  | january |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **step back** | would | weddings *= wedding* |  |  |  |  | as senior working royals | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **move** | past | weddings *= wedding* |  | California |  |  | later *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to california=Result |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Harry | a prince |  |  | still |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:044-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book.lesson:13`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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