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title: In 1914 European empires, along with the USA and Japan, ruled most o… — How empires fell: the map of the 20th century · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1914 European empires, along with the USA and Japan, ruled most of the world's land and people. Who acts: European empires. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 5

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In 1914 European empires, along with the USA and Japan, ruled most of the world's land and people.

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**Who acts:** European empires · **What happens:** rule · **To what, where:** 1914

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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 (European empires), 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:5
# text = In 1914 European empires, along with the USA and Japan, ruled most of the world's land and people.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	1914	1914	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nummod
3	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | European empires | 1914 |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme |

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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:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson:5`.

**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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