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title: The UK is made of four countries, or nations: England (capital Londo… — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: The UK is made of four countries, or nations: England (capital London), Scotland (Edinburgh), Wales (Cardiff) and Northern Ireland (Belfast). A sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 7

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The UK is made of four countries, or nations: England (capital London), Scotland (Edinburgh), Wales (Cardiff) and Northern Ireland (Belfast).

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**What happens:** make · **To what, where:** UK

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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: 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:7
# text = The UK is made of four countries, or nations: England (capital London), Scotland (Edinburgh), Wales (Cardiff) and Northern Ireland (Belfast).
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
10	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
14	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Northern	Northern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
29	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:appos
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | the UK |  |  |  | of four countries  England and Scotland and Wales and Northern or nations | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:7`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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