--- title: The United Kingdom is made of four nations, England, Scotland, Wales… — The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand · tree and pragmatics description: The United Kingdom is made of four nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, on islands off the north-west of Europe; its capital is London on the River Thames, and its mild, rainy weather comes from the ocean all around it. Who acts: capital, mild rainy weather, Kingdom. 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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 (capital, mild rainy weather, Kingdom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.lesson:0 # text = The United Kingdom is made of four nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, on islands off the north-west of Europe; its capital is London on the River Thames, and its mild, rainy weather comes from the ocean all around it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 United United PROPN NNP _ 3 flat _ _ 3 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 Northern Northern PROPN NNP _ 17 flat _ _ 17 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 21 off off ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Thames Thames PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 40 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 42 rainy rainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 48 all all ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 49 around around ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ _ 51 . . 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 | **make** | present · passive | | the United Kingdom | | islands off the north west of Europe | | of four nations | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **is a** | present | Kingdom's capital | London | | the River Thames | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | present | Kingdom's mild rainy weather | | | the ocean | | around Kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from ocean=Initial\_Location around it=Destination | | 4 | **weather** | | Kingdom | | | | | | nom weather «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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:world:045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [The United States and its states, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/17/) - next →: [The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/)