--- title: Ireland is a special case: next door to Britain, ruled by it for cen… — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Ireland is a special case: next door to Britain, ruled by it for centuries, it became independent in 1922 and still feels the Great Famine, when a million people died. Who acts: Ireland, door, million people. 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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 (Ireland, door, million people), 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:4 # text = Ireland is a special case: next door to Britain, ruled by it for centuries, it became independent in 1922 and still feels the Great Famine, when a million people died. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ruled rule VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl:agent _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 independent independent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1922 1922 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Famine famine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 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 | Ireland | a special case and next door to Britain | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **rule** | participle | | next door to Britain *not said here* | | | century | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | past | door | | | | | independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **feel** | present | door *not said here* | the Great Famine | | | still | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent famine=Theme | | 5 | **die** | past | million people | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:4`. **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, 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. 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