--- title: The United Kingdom left the European Union in 2020 after a referendu… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth · tree and pragmatics description: The United Kingdom left the European Union in 2020 after a referendum, a vote of all the people, in 2016; this is called Brexit. Who acts: United Kingdom. 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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 (United Kingdom), 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:11 # text = The United Kingdom left the European Union in 2020 after a referendum, a vote of all the people, in 2016; this is called Brexit. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 United United PROPN NNP _ 3 compound _ _ 3 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 European European PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 referendum referendum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 27 Brexit Brexit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **leave** | past | the United Kingdom | the European Union | | 2020 | after a referendum | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent union=Theme in 2020=Location | | 2 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **vote** | | | all people | | | | | nom vote «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:11`. **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. 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