--- title: English is an official language in more than 50 countries, including… — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the… · tree and pragmatics description: English is an official language in more than 50 countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Jamaica, Singapore, the Philippines and, alongside Hindi for the central government, India. Who acts: English. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English), 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:15 # text = English is an official language in more than 50 countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Jamaica, Singapore, the Philippines and, alongside Hindi for the central government, India. # 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 1 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 9 advmod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 including include ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Nigeria Nigeria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Kenya Kenya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Ghana Ghana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Jamaica Jamaica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Philippines Philippines PROPN NNPS Number=Ptan 13 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 alongside alongside ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Hindi Hindi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 central central ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | English | a official language | | 50 countries include Nigeria and Kenya and Ghana and Jamaica and Singapore and the Philippines and Hindi for the central government and India | | | tree rules | 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. **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:geography:010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.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): R5-strong ×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. 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