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title: Charles became King the moment his mother died and was crowned with… — The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move… · tree and pragmatics
description: Charles became King the moment his mother died and was crowned with Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey on 6 May 2023, which was also Harry's son Archie's birthday; Harry came, and Meghan stayed in California with the children. Who acts: Charles, mother, birthday, Harry. A sentence of the lesson «The
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# The royal family in the news: a wedding, a move to America, an interview and a book, sentence 18

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Charles became King the moment his mother died and was crowned with Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey on 6 May 2023, which was also Harry's son Archie's birthday; Harry came, and Meghan stayed in California with the children.

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**Who acts:** Charles, mother, birthday, Harry, Meghan · **What happens:** become, die, crown, be, come, stay · **To what, where:** moment, Westminster Abbey, son, California

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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 (Charles, mother, birthday, 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:18
# text = Charles became King the moment his mother died and was crowned with Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey on 6 May 2023, which was also Harry's son Archie's birthday; Harry came, and Meghan stayed in California with the children.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	Camilla	Camilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Westminster	Westminster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Abbey	Abbey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
20	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:appos
29	Archie	Archie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	Meghan	Meghan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **become** | past | Charles |  |  |  | moment |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **die** | past | Charles's mother | the moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crown** | past · passive | Charles's mother *not said here* |  |  | Westminster Abbey |  | with Queen; on 6  2023  May | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with queen=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Harry's son's birthday | Harry's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | Harry |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stay** | past | Meghan |  |  | California |  | with the children | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in california=Location |

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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:18`.

**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 ×3, 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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