--- title: The British monarch is also head of state of 14 other Commonwealth c… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth · tree and pragmatics description: The British monarch is also head of state of 14 other Commonwealth countries, such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Jamaica, which are called Commonwealth realms, and Barbados became a republic in 2021. Who acts: British monarch, Barbados. 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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 (British monarch, Barbados), 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:13 # text = The British monarch is also head of state of 14 other Commonwealth countries, such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Jamaica, which are called Commonwealth realms, and Barbados became a republic in 2021. # 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 3 det _ _ 2 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 also also ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 Commonwealth Commonwealth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 16 fixed _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 New New PROPN NNP _ 22 flat _ _ 22 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Jamaica Jamaica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl:relcl _ _ 29 Commonwealth Commonwealth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 realms realm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 Barbados Barbados PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 republic republic NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 obl _ _ 39 . . 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 British monarch | head | | | | of state of 14 other Commonwealth countries as Australia and Canada and New Zealand and Jamaica | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | present · passive | | Australia and Canada and New Zealand and Jamaica | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **become** | past | Barbados | a republic | | | | in 2021 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2021=Result | 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:13`. **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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