--- title: In 1867 several colonies joined to form the Dominion of Canada, whic… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: In 1867 several colonies joined to form the Dominion of Canada, which is celebrated every year on Canada Day, 1 July. Who acts: several colonies. A sentence of the lesson «Canada: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Canada: a short story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/) / 10 # Canada: a short story, sentence 10 In 1867 several colonies joined to form the Dominion of Canada, which is celebrated every year on Canada Day, 1 July. **Who acts:** several colonies · **What happens:** join, form, celebrate · **To what, where:** 1, Dominion This is a sentence of the lesson «Canada: 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 (several colonies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:039-canada-a-short-story.lesson:10 # text = In 1867 several colonies joined to form the Dominion of Canada, which is celebrated every year on Canada Day, 1 July. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 039-canada-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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1867 1867 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 form form VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Dominion Dominion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 celebrated celebrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 23 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:unmarked _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **join** | past | several colonies | 1 July | | | | in 1867 | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1867=Theme | | 2 | **form** | to-infinitive | several colonies *not said here* | the Dominion of Canada | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dominion=Theme | | 3 | **celebrate** | present · passive | | the Dominion of Canada | | | on Canada Day; year | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «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:039-canada-a-short-story.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [Canada: a short story, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/9/) - next →: [Canada: a short story, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/)