--- title: The breaking up went on to the end of the century: the Soviet Union… — How empires fell: the map of the 20th century · tree and pragmatics description: The breaking up went on to the end of the century: the Soviet Union split into 15 countries in 1991, and Hong Kong and Macau went back to China in 1997 and 1999. Who acts: breaking, Soviet Union, Hong. 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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 (breaking, Soviet Union, Hong), 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:4 # text = The breaking up went on to the end of the century: the Soviet Union split into 15 countries in 1991, and Hong Kong and Macau went back to China in 1997 and 1999. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 breaking breaking NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Soviet Soviet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 split split VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 1991 1991 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 Hong Hong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 Kong Kong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 Macau Macau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 1997 1997 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 1999 1999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go on** | past | the breaking | | | | to the end of the century | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **split** | past | the Soviet Union | | | | | into 15 countries *result*; in 1991 | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into country=Result | | 3 | **go back** | past | Hong and Macau | | China | 1997 | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to china=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:4`. **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): R6-punct-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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