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# Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 1

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In the game France and England fight over North America; in real life Canada kept both, which is why it has two official languages and French Quebec.

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**Who acts:** France, Canada, life · **What happens:** fight, keep, be, have · **To what, where:** game, both, real life, two official languages

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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 (France, Canada, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson:1
# text = In the game France and England fight over North America; in real life Canada kept both, which is why it has two official languages and French Quebec.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
6	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
17	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl:relcl	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
29	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | present | France and England |  |  | the game |  | over North America | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over america=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Canada | both |  | real life |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent both=Theme in life=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | life | two official languages and French Quebec |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

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

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