--- title: Within one lifetime those patches broke into many small ones, like a… — How empires fell: the map of the 20th century · tree and pragmatics description: Within one lifetime those patches broke into many small ones, like a giant jigsaw spilled on the floor and put back as dozens of separate pictures. Who acts: patches. A sentence of the lesson «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/1/) [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/) / [How empires fell: the map of the 20th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/) / 1 # How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 1 Within one lifetime those patches broke into many small ones, like a giant jigsaw spilled on the floor and put back as dozens of separate pictures. **Who acts:** patches · **What happens:** break, spill, put back · **To what, where:** giant jigsaw, floor This is a sentence of the lesson «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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 (patches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson:1 # text = Within one lifetime those patches broke into many small ones, like a giant jigsaw spilled on the floor and put back as dozens of separate pictures. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.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 1 Within within ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 lifetime lifetime NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 jigsaw jigsaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 16 spilled spill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 22 back back ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 dozens dozen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | past | that patches | | | | | within one lifetime; into many small ones *result*; like a giant jigsaw | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into one=Result | | 2 | **spill** | participle | | a giant jigsaw *not said here* | | the floor | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location | | 3 | **put back** | past | | | | | | as dozens of separate pictures | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson:1`. **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. **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. 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