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title: By 1900 Britain ruled about a quarter of the world's land and people… — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: By 1900 Britain ruled about a quarter of the world's land and people, from India to Africa and Canada, and most colonies became independent in the 1900s. Who acts: Britain, most colonies. A sentence of the lesson «Britain and Ireland: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 12

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By 1900 Britain ruled about a quarter of the world's land and people, from India to Africa and Canada, and most colonies became independent in the 1900s.

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**Who acts:** Britain, most colonies · **What happens:** rule, become · **To what, where:** quarter, Africa, India, 1900s

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Britain and Ireland: a short story» of the history 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 (Britain, most colonies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:12
# text = By 1900 Britain ruled about a quarter of the world's land and people, from India to Africa and Canada, and most colonies became independent in the 1900s.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	1900s	1900	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **rule** | past | Britain | a quarter of the world's land and people | Africa and Canada | India |  | by 1900 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | most colonies |  |  |  |  | in the 1900s *result*; independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1900=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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**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): R7-rel-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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