--- title: The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are Crown Dependencies, not par… — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are Crown Dependencies, not part of the UK, and 14 British Overseas Territories, such as Gibraltar, Bermuda and the Falkland Islands, remain from the empire; Gibraltar, British since 1704, guards the entrance to the Mediterranean. 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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 (Isle, 14 British Overseas Territories, Gibraltar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:15 # text = The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are Crown Dependencies, not part of the UK, and 14 British Overseas Territories, such as Gibraltar, Bermuda and the Falkland Islands, remain from the empire; Gibraltar, British since 1704, guards the entrance to the Mediterranean. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Isle isle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Jersey Jersey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 Guernsey guernsey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 Crown Crown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Dependencies dependency NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 parataxis _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 21 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:NNP:Degree=Pos 22 Overseas Overseas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Territories territory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 27 case _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 Gibraltar Gibraltar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:parataxis 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Bermuda Bermuda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Falkland Falkland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Islands Island PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 35 remain remain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Gibraltar Gibraltar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:appos 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 43 since since ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 1704 1704 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 obl _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 guards guard VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 entrance entrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35: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 Isle of Man and Guernsey and Jersey | Crown Dependencies | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **remain** | present | 14 British Overseas Territories such Gibraltar and Bermuda and the Falkland Islands | | | the empire | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **guard** | present | Gibraltar | the entrance | | | | to the Mediterranean | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Beneficiary | 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:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:15`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [The British Isles and the United Kingdom, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/14/) - next →: [The British Isles and the United Kingdom, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/)