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title: Other clubs join countries by history or by place: the Commonwealth… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth · tree and pragmatics
description: Other clubs join countries by history or by place: the Commonwealth links many lands once in the British Empire, NATO is a promise to defend each other, and the African Union links the whole of Africa. Who acts: Other clubs, Commonwealth, NATO, African Union. A sentence of the lesson «Today's world:
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# Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth, sentence 4

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Other clubs join countries by history or by place: the Commonwealth links many lands once in the British Empire, NATO is a promise to defend each other, and the African Union links the whole of Africa.

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**Who acts:** Other clubs, Commonwealth, NATO, African Union · **What happens:** join, link, be, defend · **To what, where:** countries, many lands, promise, each, whole

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» 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 (Other clubs, Commonwealth, NATO, African Union), 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:4
# text = Other clubs join countries by history or by place: the Commonwealth links many lands once in the British Empire, NATO is a promise to defend each other, and the African Union links the whole of Africa.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	links	link	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
22	NATO	NATO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	27	obj	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	fixed	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	links	link	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	whole	whole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **join** | present | Other clubs | countries |  |  |  | by history | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
| 2 | **link** | present | the Commonwealth | many lands |  |  |  | once *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | NATO | a promise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **defend** | to-infinitive | the Commonwealth *not said here* | each |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **link** | present | the African Union | the whole of Africa |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient |

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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:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:4`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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