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title: England began as a kingdom on part of one island, and in 1337, when… — Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers… · tree and pragmatics
description: England began as a kingdom on part of one island, and in 1337, when EU5 starts, it still held lands in France, such as Gascony. Who acts: England, EU5, island. A sentence of the lesson «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew, sentence 10

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England began as a kingdom on part of one island, and in 1337, when EU5 starts, it still held lands in France, such as Gascony.

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**Who acts:** England, EU5, island · **What happens:** begin, start, hold · **To what, where:** part, lands, 1337

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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 (England, EU5, island), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.lesson:10
# text = England began as a kingdom on part of one island, and in 1337, when EU5 starts, it still held lands in France, such as Gascony.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
17	EU5	EU5	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	Gascony	Gascony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **begin** | past | England |  |  | part of one island |  | as a kingdom | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **start** | present | EU5 |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hold** | past | island | lands |  | 1337 | still | in France; such Gascony | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent land=Theme in 1337=Location |

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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:034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.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): R5-strong ×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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