--- title: Canadian soldiers fought in both World Wars, for example at Vimy Rid… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Canadian soldiers fought in both World Wars, for example at Vimy Ridge in 1917 and on D-Day in 1944, which gave Canada a stronger sense of being its own nation. Who acts: Canadian soldiers, stronger sense. A sentence of the lesson «Canada: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary schoo --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Canada: a short story, sentence 15 Canadian soldiers fought in both World Wars, for example at Vimy Ridge in 1917 and on D-Day in 1944, which gave Canada a stronger sense of being its own nation. **Who acts:** Canadian soldiers, stronger sense · **What happens:** fight, give, be · **To what, where:** World Wars, stronger sense, Canada, own nation 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 (Canadian soldiers, stronger sense), 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:15 # text = Canadian soldiers fought in both World Wars, for example at Vimy Ridge in 1917 and on D-Day in 1944, which gave Canada a stronger sense of being its own nation. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Canadian Canadian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 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 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 Vimy Vimy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Ridge ridge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 1917 1917 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 D D PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1944 1944 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 iobj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 30 of of SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 cop _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nmod 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | past | Canadian soldiers | | | both World Wars | | for example; at Vimy Ridge; in 1917 and D Day; in 1944 | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | past | | a stronger sense | Canada | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent canada=Recipient sense=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | gerund | a stronger sense *not said here* | sense's own nation | | | | | tree rules | 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:15`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/14/) - next →: [Canada: a short story, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/)