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title: Many countries you know are younger than you think: Italy became one… — Europe: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Many countries you know are younger than you think: Italy became one state in 1861 and Germany in 1871, long after the game's Holy Roman Empire. Who acts: you, Many countries, Italy. A sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Europe: countries and capitals, sentence 2

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Many countries you know are younger than you think: Italy became one state in 1861 and Germany in 1871, long after the game's Holy Roman Empire.

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**Who acts:** you, Many countries, Italy · **What happens:** know, be, think, become · **To what, where:** Many countries, one state, 1861 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» 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 (you, Many countries, Italy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:007-europe-countries-and-capitals.lesson:2
# text = Many countries you know are younger than you think: Italy became one state in 1861 and Germany in 1871, long after the game's Holy Roman Empire.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 007-europe-countries-and-capitals.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): no change
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1861	1861	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1871	1871	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **know** | present | you | Many countries *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Many countries |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | Italy | one state and Germany |  |  | after the game's Holy Roman Empire | in 1861 *result*; in 1871 | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1861=Result |

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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:007-europe-countries-and-capitals.lesson:2`.

**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): no change. **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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