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title: Most of Ireland became independent in 1922 while Northern Ireland st… — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of Ireland became independent in 1922 while Northern Ireland stayed in the UK, and after years of conflict the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 brought peace. Who acts: Most, Northern Ireland, Good Friday Agreement. A sentence of the lesson «Britain and Ireland: a short story» of the history cours
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# Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 16

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Most of Ireland became independent in 1922 while Northern Ireland stayed in the UK, and after years of conflict the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 brought peace.

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**Who acts:** Most, Northern Ireland, Good Friday Agreement · **What happens:** become, stay, bring · **To what, where:** UK, peace

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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 (Most, Northern Ireland, Good Friday Agreement), 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:16
# text = Most of Ireland became independent in 1922 while Northern Ireland stayed in the UK, and after years of conflict the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 brought peace.
# 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): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Northern	Northern	PROPN	NNP	_	10	amod	_	_
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Most of Ireland |  |  |  |  | independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **stay** | past | Northern Ireland |  |  | the UK |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in uk=Location |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 | peace |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent peace=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:history:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:16`.

**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): no change. **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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