--- title: Canada became its own country step by step and peacefully, starting… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Canada became its own country step by step and peacefully, starting with Confederation in 1867, and a railway finished in 1885 tied it together from ocean to ocean. Who acts: Canada, railway, step. A sentence of the lesson «Canada: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school with i --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Canada: a short story, sentence 3 Canada became its own country step by step and peacefully, starting with Confederation in 1867, and a railway finished in 1885 tied it together from ocean to ocean. **Who acts:** Canada, railway, step · **What happens:** become, start, finish, tie, step · **To what, where:** country step, 1867, railway, 1885, other 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 (Canada, railway, step), 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:3 # text = Canada became its own country step by step and peacefully, starting with Confederation in 1867, and a railway finished in 1885 tied it together from ocean to ocean. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod 5 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 peacefully peacefully ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Confederation confederation PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1867 1867 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 railway railway NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 1885 1885 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 24 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 together together ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Canada | other's country step by step | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **start** | gerund | Canada *not said here* | | | 1867 | | with Confederation; peacefully *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with confederation=Subeventuality | | 3 | **finish** | participle | | a railway *not said here* | | 1885 | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **tie** | past | a railway | other | | | | to ocean; to ocean; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to ocean=Co-Patient | | 5 | **step** | | step | other | | | | | nom step «act transitive»: poss=patient by=agent | 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:3`. **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, R5-strong ×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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/2/) - next →: [Canada: a short story, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/)