--- title: The game shows sugar islands as rich prizes, but it hides the people… — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the… · tree and pragmatics description: The game shows sugar islands as rich prizes, but it hides the people forced to grow the sugar: most Jamaicans today descend from Africans enslaved on British plantations. Who acts: game, people, most Jamaicans. 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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 (game, people, most Jamaicans), 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:2 # text = The game shows sugar islands as rich prizes, but it hides the people forced to grow the sugar: most Jamaicans today descend from Africans enslaved on British plantations. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 prizes prize NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 Jamaicans jamaican PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 descend descend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:ccomp 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Africans african PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 27 enslaved enslave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 plantations plantation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | the game | sugar islands | | | | as rich prizes | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent island=Recipient | | 2 | **hide** | present | game | the people | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 3 | **force** | participle | | the people *not said here* | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **grow** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | the sugar | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sugar=Theme | | 5 | **descend** | present | most Jamaicans | | | Africans | today | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from african=Location | | 6 | **enslave** | participle | | Africans *not said here* | | British plantations | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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. 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