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title: The Hundred Years' War between England and France began in 1337, and… — Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hundred Years' War between England and France began in 1337, and by 1453 England held only Calais in France. Who acts: War, England. 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 dependency tree and the p
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# Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew, sentence 11

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The Hundred Years' War between England and France began in 1337, and by 1453 England held only Calais in France.

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**Who acts:** War, England · **What happens:** begin, hold · **To what, where:** 1337, Calais, France

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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 (War, England), 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:11
# text = The Hundred Years' War between England and France began in 1337, and by 1453 England held only Calais in France.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
2	Hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	Years	Year	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1453	1453	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
17	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	Calais	Calais	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | the Hundred Years's War between England and France |  |  | 1337 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hold** | past | England | Calais |  | France |  | by 1453 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent calais=Theme by 1453=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:11`.

**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, 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.

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

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