--- title: After helping to win both World Wars, the USA became one of the most… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: After helping to win both World Wars, the USA became one of the most powerful countries in the world, and its films, music and technology spread worldwide. Who acts: USA, films. 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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 (USA, films), 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:16 # text = After helping to win both World Wars, the USA became one of the most powerful countries in the world, and its films, music and technology spread worldwide. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 6 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Wars War PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 xcomp _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 16 advmod _ _ 16 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 technology technology NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 30 worldwide worldwide ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | gerund | the USA *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **win** | to-infinitive | the USA *not said here* | both World Wars | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality | | 3 | **become** | past | the USA | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **spread** | past | USA's films and music and technology | | | | | worldwide *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **film** | | USA | | | | | | nom film «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/15/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)