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title: The Republic of Ireland, with its capital Dublin and about 5.4 milli… — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Republic of Ireland, with its capital Dublin and about 5.4 million people, became independent in 1922 and a republic in 1949, and Irish is its first official language though most people speak English every day, because centuries of English rule, English-only schooling and the famine pushed Irish
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# Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 13

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The Republic of Ireland, with its capital Dublin and about 5.4 million people, became independent in 1922 and a republic in 1949, and Irish is its first official language though most people speak English every day, because centuries of English rule, English-only schooling and the famine pushed Irish back.

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**Who acts:** Republic, Irish, most people, centuries · **What happens:** become, be, speak, push back · **To what, where:** republic, first official language, English, Irish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Republic, Irish, most people, centuries), 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:13
# text = The Republic of Ireland, with its capital Dublin and about 5.4 million people, became independent in 1922 and a republic in 1949, and Irish is its first official language though most people speak English every day, because centuries of English rule, English-only schooling and the famine pushed Irish back.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	5.4	5.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1949	1949	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	Irish	Irish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
31	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
33	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:case
34	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
37	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
41	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
42	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	_
49	only	only	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	schooling	schooling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:nmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
54	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
55	Irish	Irish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
56	back	back	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **become** | past | the Republic of Ireland with Dublin  Republic's capital and million people | a republic in 1949 |  |  |  | independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Irish | Republic's first official language |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | most people | English |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **push back** | past | centuries of English rule and English schooling and the famine | Irish |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent irish=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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