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title: Queen Elizabeth II reigned for 70 years, from 1952 to 2022, longer t… — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: Queen Elizabeth II reigned for 70 years, from 1952 to 2022, longer than any other British monarch, and her son became King Charles III. Who acts: Elizabeth, son. A sentence of the lesson «Britain and Ireland: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 17

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Queen Elizabeth II reigned for 70 years, from 1952 to 2022, longer than any other British monarch, and her son became King Charles III.

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**Who acts:** Elizabeth, son · **What happens:** reign, become · **To what, where:** 1952

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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 (Elizabeth, son), 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:17
# text = Queen Elizabeth II reigned for 70 years, from 1952 to 2022, longer than any other British monarch, and her son became King Charles III.
# 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	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Elizabeth	Elizabeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1952	1952	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:desc	_	_
26	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
27	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **reign** | past | Elizabeth  Queen |  |  | 1952 to 2022 | year | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | Elizabeth's son |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:17`.

**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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