--- title: In 1759 the British won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and Fran… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: In 1759 the British won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and France gave up Canada, but French Canadians kept their language, which is why a Canadian cereal box has English on one side and French on the other. Who acts: British, France, French Canadians, language. A sentence of the lesson «Canada --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Canada: a short story, sentence 2 In 1759 the British won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and France gave up Canada, but French Canadians kept their language, which is why a Canadian cereal box has English on one side and French on the other. **Who acts:** British, France, French Canadians, language, Canadian cereal box · **What happens:** win, give up, keep, be, have · **To what, where:** Battle, 1759, Canada, language, English, one side 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 (British, France, French Canadians, language), 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:2 # text = In 1759 the British won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and France gave up Canada, but French Canadians kept their language, which is why a Canadian cereal box has English on one side and French on the other. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1759 1759 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 British British ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 5 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Battle battle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Plains plain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Canadians canadian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 Canadian Canadian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=ADJ:NNP:Degree=Pos 31 cereal cereal NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl:relcl _ _ 34 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | past | the British | the Battle of the Plains of Abraham | | 1759 | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality | | 2 | **give up** | past | France | Canada | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canada=Source | | 3 | **keep** | past | French Canadians | Canadians's language | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | Canadians's language | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | a Canadian cereal box | English | | one side | | on the other | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Patient | 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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/1/) - next →: [Canada: a short story, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/)