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title: Start EU5 in 1337 and England and Scotland are rival kingdoms, while… — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Start EU5 in 1337 and England and Scotland are rival kingdoms, while England's grip on Ireland barely reaches beyond Dublin; the kingdom of Great Britain comes only in 1707. Who acts: you, England, grip, kingdom. A sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» of the geography co
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# The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 2

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Start EU5 in 1337 and England and Scotland are rival kingdoms, while England's grip on Ireland barely reaches beyond Dublin; the kingdom of Great Britain comes only in 1707.

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**Who acts:** you, England, grip, kingdom · **What happens:** start, be, reach, come, grip · **To what, where:** EU5, 1337, rival kingdoms, 1707, Ireland

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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, England, grip, kingdom), 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:2
# text = Start EU5 in 1337 and England and Scotland are rival kingdoms, while England's grip on Ireland barely reaches beyond Dublin; the kingdom of Great Britain comes only in 1707.
# 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 ×1
1	Start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	EU5	EU5	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	rival	rival	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	_	28	compound	_	_
28	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	1707	1707	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | imperative | you *not said here* | EU5 |  | 1337 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eu5=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | England and Scotland | rival kingdoms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | present | England's grip on Ireland |  |  |  |  | beyond Dublin; barely *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | present | the kingdom of Great Britain |  |  | 1707 |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1707=Location |
| 5 | **grip** |  | England |  |  | Ireland |  |  | nom grip «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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