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title: Great Britain is the island holding England, Scotland and Wales, whi… — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Great Britain is the island holding England, Scotland and Wales, while the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland also includes Northern Ireland. Who acts: Great Britain, island, United Kingdom. A sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» of the geography course
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# The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 6

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Great Britain is the island holding England, Scotland and Wales, while the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland also includes Northern Ireland.

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**Who acts:** Great Britain, island, United Kingdom · **What happens:** be, hold, include · **To what, where:** island, England, Northern 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 (Great Britain, island, United 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:6
# text = Great Britain is the island holding England, Scotland and Wales, while the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland also includes Northern Ireland.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
7	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Great	Great	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
25	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Great Britain | the island |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | the island *not said here* | England and Scotland and Wales |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent england=Theme |
| 3 | **include** | present | the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

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

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