--- title: The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary group of 56 countries, mo… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth · tree and pragmatics description: The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary group of 56 countries, most of which were once part of the British Empire, though some members, such as Rwanda and Mozambique, never were. Who acts: Commonwealth, most members. 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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 (Commonwealth, most members), 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:12 # text = The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary group of 56 countries, most of which were once part of the British Empire, though some members, such as Rwanda and Mozambique, never were. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Commonwealth Commonwealth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 voluntary voluntary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 56 56 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 13 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 18 advmod _ _ 18 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 24 though though SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 28 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 30 case _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 Rwanda Rwanda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 Mozambique Mozambique PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **is a** | present | the Commonwealth of Nations | a voluntary group | | | | of 56 countries | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | of part; of the British Empire; once *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **be** | past | some most members such Rwanda and Mozambique | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:12`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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