--- title: After two World Wars the USA became one of the most powerful countri… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: After two World Wars the USA became one of the most powerful countries on Earth, and in 2008 Barack Obama was elected its first Black president. Who acts: USA. 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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), 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:4 # text = After two World Wars the USA became one of the most powerful countries on Earth, and in 2008 Barack Obama was elected its first Black president. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Wars War PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 xcomp _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 12 advmod _ _ 12 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 2008 2008 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 20 Barack Barack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 Obama Obama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 25 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 amod _ _ 26 Black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | the USA | | | | after two World Wars | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **elect** | past · passive | | Barack | | 2008 | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:4`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [The United States: a short story, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/3/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)