--- title: In 1759 the British won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québe… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: In 1759 the British won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québec, and France gave up Canada, but French Canadians kept their language, religion and laws. Who acts: British, France, French Canadians. A sentence of the lesson «Canada: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Canada: a short story, sentence 8 In 1759 the British won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québec, and France gave up Canada, but French Canadians kept their language, religion and laws. **Who acts:** British, France, French Canadians · **What happens:** win, give up, keep · **To what, where:** Battle, 1759, Canada, language 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), 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:8 # text = In 1759 the British won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québec, and France gave up Canada, but French Canadians kept their language, religion and laws. # 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 ×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 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Québec Québec PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Canadians canadian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 religion religion NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 32 . . 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 | | at Québec | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent battle=Theme at québec=Asset | | 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 and religion and laws | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Theme | 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:8`. **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 ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/7/) - next →: [Canada: a short story, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/)