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title: Even in Britain at the time, many people, like the young William Gla… — China: the Qing and the Opium Wars · tree and pragmatics
description: Even in Britain at the time, many people, like the young William Gladstone, called the war shameful. Who acts: many people. A sentence of the lesson «China: the Qing and the Opium Wars» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# China: the Qing and the Opium Wars, sentence 7

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Even in Britain at the time, many people, like the young William Gladstone, called the war shameful.

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**Who acts:** many people · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** war, Britain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Qing and the Opium Wars» 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 (many people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:7
# text = Even in Britain at the time, many people, like the young William Gladstone, called the war shameful.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.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): no change
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	Gladstone	Gladstone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	shameful	shameful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | many people | the war |  | Britain at the time |  | shameful *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent war=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:057-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars.lesson:7`.

**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): no change. **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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