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description: Ireland is a republic: its elected President is head of state, mostly for ceremonies, and lives at Áras an Uachtaráin in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Who acts: Ireland, elected President. A sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» of the politics c
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# Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 11

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Ireland is a republic: its elected President is head of state, mostly for ceremonies, and lives at Áras an Uachtaráin in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

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**Who acts:** Ireland, elected President · **What happens:** be, elect, live · **To what, where:** republic, head, Uachtaráin, Áras

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» of the politics 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 (Ireland, elected President), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:11
# text = Ireland is a republic: its elected President is head of state, mostly for ceremonies, and lives at Áras an Uachtaráin in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Áras	Áras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Uachtaráin	Uachtaráin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:appos
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Ireland | a republic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | republic's elected President | head |  |  |  | of state; for ceremonies | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | present | republic's elected President *not said here* | a Uachtaráin |  | Áras |  | in Phoenix Park and Dublin | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at áras=Location |

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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:politics:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:11`.

**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, R7-rel-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/).

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