--- title: There are about 195 countries today, and many African borders were d… — From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms,… · tree and pragmatics description: There are about 195 countries today, and many African borders were drawn by Europeans on maps, with little thought for the peoples living there. Who acts: 195 countries, Europeans, peoples. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (195 countries, Europeans, peoples), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:5 # text = There are about 195 countries today, and many African borders were drawn by Europeans on maps, with little thought for the peoples living there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 195 195 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 6 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Europeans European PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 maps map NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . 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 | **be about** | present | 195 countries | | | there | today | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **draw** | past · passive | Europeans | many African borders | | maps | | with little thought for the peoples | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on map=Destination | | 3 | **live** | gerund | the peoples *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:5`. **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): 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. 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