--- title: The biggest is the United Nations, founded in 1945 after the Second… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth · tree and pragmatics description: The biggest is the United Nations, founded in 1945 after the Second World War, so that countries would argue at a table instead of on a battlefield; it has 193 members and its headquarters is in New York. Who acts: biggest, countries, battlefield. 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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 (biggest, countries, battlefield), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:1 # text = The biggest is the United Nations, founded in 1945 after the Second World War, so that countries would argue at a table instead of on a battlefield; it has 193 members and its headquarters is in New York. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 United United PROPN NNP _ 6 compound _ _ 6 Nations Nations PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 founded found VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1945 1945 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 Second Second ADJ NNP Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 14 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 argue argue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 29 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 battlefield battlefield NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 33 193 193 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 headquarters headquarters NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 34 conj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 42 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the biggest | the United Nations | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **found** | participle | | the United Nations *not said here* | | 1945 | after the Second World War | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | would | countries | | | a table | | instead a battlefield | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | battlefield | 193 members and battlefield's headquarters | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | battlefield *not said here* | | | New York | | | tree rules | 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:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.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): 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. 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