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title: Borders such as those of Iraq, Syria and Jordan were largely drawn b… — How empires fell: the map of the 20th century · tree and pragmatics
description: Borders such as those of Iraq, Syria and Jordan were largely drawn by Britain and France after the First World War. Who acts: Britain. 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
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# How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 9

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Borders such as those of Iraq, Syria and Jordan were largely drawn by Britain and France after the First World War.

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**Who acts:** Britain · **What happens:** draw · **To what, where:** Borders

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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 (Britain), 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:9
# text = Borders such as those of Iraq, Syria and Jordan were largely drawn by Britain and France after the First World War.
# 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 ×2
1	Borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Plur|PronType=Dem
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	First	First	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
21	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **draw** | past · passive | Britain and France | Borders  those |  |  | after the First World War | largely *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:9`.

**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 ×2. **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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