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title: In February 2021 the Palace confirmed they would not return as worki… — The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move… · tree and pragmatics
description: In February 2021 the Palace confirmed they would not return as working royals, and Harry's special army titles went back to the Queen. Who acts: Palace, weddings, special army titles, Harry. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book
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# The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 15

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In February 2021 the Palace confirmed they would not return as working royals, and Harry's special army titles went back to the Queen.

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**Who acts:** Palace, weddings, special army titles, Harry · **What happens:** confirm, not return, work, go back, title

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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 (Palace, weddings, special army titles, Harry), 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:15
# text = In February 2021 the Palace confirmed they would not return as working royals, and Harry's special army titles went back to the Queen.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	royals	royal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	titles	title	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **confirm** | past | the Palace |  |  |  | february |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **return** | would | weddings *= wedding* |  |  |  |  | as working royals | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go back** | past | Harry's special army titles |  |  |  |  | to the Queen *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to queen=Result |
| 5 | **title** |  | Harry |  |  |  |  |  | nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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: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): no change. **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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