--- title: The Soviet Union, the communist state that grew out of the Russian E… — How empires fell: the map of the 20th century · tree and pragmatics description: The Soviet Union, the communist state that grew out of the Russian Empire, broke up into 15 countries in 1991, including Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia and the Baltic states. Who acts: communist state, Soviet Union. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (communist state, Soviet Union), 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:16 # text = The Soviet Union, the communist state that grew out of the Russian Empire, broke up into 15 countries in 1991, including Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia and the Baltic states. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Soviet Soviet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 communist communist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 out out ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1991 1991 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 including include ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Kazakhstan Kazakhstan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Georgia Georgia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Baltic baltic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 16 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 | **grow out** | past | the communist state | the Russian Empire | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location empire=Theme | | 2 | **break up** | past | the Soviet Union | | | | | into 15 countries *result*; in 1991; include Ukraine and Kazakhstan and Georgia and the Baltic states | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into country=Result | 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:16`. **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): 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. 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