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title: It also has a painful story, the residential schools, for which Cana… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: It also has a painful story, the residential schools, for which Canada has apologised, and today it calls itself a mosaic of cultures under the red maple leaf. Who acts: railway, Canada. A sentence of the lesson «Canada: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Canada: a short story, sentence 4

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It also has a painful story, the residential schools, for which Canada has apologised, and today it calls itself a mosaic of cultures under the red maple leaf.

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**Who acts:** railway, Canada · **What happens:** have, apologise, call · **To what, where:** painful story, railway · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (railway, Canada), 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:4
# text = It also has a painful story, the residential schools, for which Canada has apologised, and today it calls itself a mosaic of cultures under the red maple leaf.
# 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 ×2
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	residential	residential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	apologised	apologise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mosaic	mosaic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	cultures	culture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | railway | a painful story |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 2 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | present · perfect | Canada |  |  |  |  | for the residential schools | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | present | railway | railway |  |  | today |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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 ×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/).

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