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title: Most of Spain's mainland American colonies won independence between… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of Spain's mainland American colonies won independence between 1810 and 1825, led by figures such as Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, and Bolivia is named after Bolívar. Who acts: Most. A sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography course of Mova's primary sch
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# Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 15

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Most of Spain's mainland American colonies won independence between 1810 and 1825, led by figures such as Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, and Bolivia is named after Bolívar.

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**Who acts:** Most · **What happens:** win, lead, name · **To what, where:** independence, Bolivia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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 (Most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:15
# text = Most of Spain's mainland American colonies won independence between 1810 and 1825, led by figures such as Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, and Bolivia is named after Bolívar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.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 ×4
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mainland	mainland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj
8	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1810	1810	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	1825	1825	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:agent	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	Simón	Simón	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	Bolívar	Bolívar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	José	José	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
26	Martín	Martín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
32	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Bolívar	Bolívar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | Most of mainland  Spain's American colonies | independence |  |  |  | between 1810 | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lead** | participle | Most of mainland  Spain's American colonies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **name** | present · passive |  | Bolivia |  |  | after Bolívar |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.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 ×4. **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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