--- title: A nation is a group of people who feel they belong together, often s… — Languages and peoples on the map · tree and pragmatics description: A nation is a group of people who feel they belong together, often sharing a language and history, but many countries hold several nations and many nations are split by borders. Who acts: nation, people, languages, many countries. A sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» of the ge --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Languages and peoples on the map](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/) / 18 # Languages and peoples on the map, sentence 18 A nation is a group of people who feel they belong together, often sharing a language and history, but many countries hold several nations and many nations are split by borders. **Who acts:** nation, people, languages, many countries, borders · **What happens:** be, feel, belong, share, hold, split · **To what, where:** group, language, several nations, many nations This is a sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» 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 (nation, people, languages, many countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:18 # text = A nation is a group of people who feel they belong together, often sharing a language and history, but many countries hold several nations and many nations are split by borders. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 sharing share VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a nation | a group | | | | of people | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | present | people | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **belong** | present | languages *= language* | | | | | together *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **share** | gerund | people *not said here* | a language and history | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **hold** | present | many countries | several nations | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Theme | | 6 | **split** | present · passive | borders | many nations | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | 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:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:18`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Languages and peoples on the map, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/17/) - next →: [Languages and peoples on the map, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/)