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title: Ireland is the green island to the west of Great Britain, with Dubli… — The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand · tree and pragmatics
description: Ireland is the green island to the west of Great Britain, with Dublin as its capital; its frequent rain keeps the grass green all year. Who acts: Ireland, frequent rain, capital. A sentence of the lesson «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» of the world course of Mova's primary schoo
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# The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, sentence 1

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Ireland is the green island to the west of Great Britain, with Dublin as its capital; its frequent rain keeps the grass green all year.

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**Who acts:** Ireland, frequent rain, capital · **What happens:** be, keep, rain · **To what, where:** green island, grass

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» of the world 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, frequent rain, capital), 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:1
# text = Ireland is the green island to the west of Great Britain, with Dublin as its capital; its frequent rain keeps the grass green all year.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	_	11	flat	_	_
11	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ireland | the green island |  |  |  | to the west of Great Britain; with Dublin as west's capital | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | capital's frequent rain | the grass |  |  |  | green *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme |
| 3 | **rain** |  | capital |  |  |  |  |  | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:world:045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.lesson:1`.

**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): 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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