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title: In 2008 Barack Obama was elected the first Black president of the Un… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2008 Barack Obama was elected the first Black president of the United States. A sentence of the lesson «The United States: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The United States: a short story, sentence 17

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In 2008 Barack Obama was elected the first Black president of the United States.

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**What happens:** elect · **To what, where:** Barack, 2008

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States: 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: 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:17
# text = In 2008 Barack Obama was elected the first Black president of the United States.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2008	2008	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	Barack	Barack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	Obama	Obama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
9	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	United	United	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
14	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **elect** | past · passive |  | Barack |  | 2008 |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:038-the-united-states-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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