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title: In 1947 British India was divided into India and Pakistan, and in 19… — East, South and South-East Asia: countries and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1947 British India was divided into India and Pakistan, and in 1971 East Pakistan became Bangladesh; millions were forced from their homes and hundreds of thousands, perhaps far more, were killed. Who acts: East. A sentence of the lesson «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» o
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# East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals, sentence 10

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In 1947 British India was divided into India and Pakistan, and in 1971 East Pakistan became Bangladesh; millions were forced from their homes and hundreds of thousands, perhaps far more, were killed.

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**Who acts:** East · **What happens:** divide, become, force, kill · **To what, where:** British India, 1947, 1971, millions, homes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» 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 (East), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.lesson:10
# text = In 1947 British India was divided into India and Pakistan, and in 1971 East Pakistan became Bangladesh; millions were forced from their homes and hundreds of thousands, perhaps far more, were killed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1947	1947	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1971	1971	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
15	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Pakistan	Pakistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36: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 | **divide** | past · passive |  | British India |  | 1947 |  | into India and Pakistan | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | East |  |  |  |  | in 1971 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1971=Result |
| 3 | **force** | past · passive |  | millions |  | millions's homes and hundreds of thousands |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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**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:011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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

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