--- title: The colonists grew angry that Britain taxed them though they had no… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: The colonists grew angry that Britain taxed them though they had no say in its Parliament, like being charged for a school trip you were never allowed to vote on, and in 1773 protesters tipped British tea into Boston harbour. Who acts: colonists, Britain, school trip, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colonists, Britain, school trip, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:1 # text = The colonists grew angry that Britain taxed them though they had no say in its Parliament, like being charged for a school trip you were never allowed to vote on, and in 1773 protesters tipped British tea into Boston harbour. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 038-the-united-states-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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 colonists colonist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 taxed tax VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 though though SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 say say NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 like like SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 charged charge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 on on ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 1773 1773 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 obl _ _ 36 protesters protester NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 tipped tip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 38 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 Boston Boston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 harbour harbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the colonists | | | | | angry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tax** | past | Britain | colonists *= colonist* | | | | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **have** | past | colonists *= colonist* | no say | | say's Parliament | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient | | 4 | **charge** | gerund · passive | colonists *= colonist* *not said here* | | | | | for a school trip | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V» | | 5 | **not** **allow** | past · passive | a school trip *not said here* | you | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **vote** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **tip** | past | protesters | British tea | | 1773 | | into Boston harbour *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer tea=Theme into harbour=Result | 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. **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:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:1`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [The United States: a short story, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/0/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)