--- title: Canada welcomes immigrants from all over the world and calls itself… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Canada welcomes immigrants from all over the world and calls itself a mosaic of cultures, and Toronto is one of the most diverse cities on Earth. Who acts: Canada, Toronto. 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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 (Canada, Toronto), 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:17 # text = Canada welcomes immigrants from all over the world and calls itself a mosaic of cultures, and Toronto is one of the most diverse cities on Earth. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 welcomes welcome VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 immigrants immigrant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mosaic mosaic NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 cultures culture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 24 advmod _ _ 24 diverse diverse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **welcome** | present | Canada | immigrants | | the world | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immigrant=Theme | | 2 | **call** | present | Canada *not said here* | world | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | present | Toronto | one | | | | of the diverse cities on Earth | 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: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): 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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/16/) - next →: [Australia and New Zealand: a short story, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/)