--- title: English, German and Dutch belong to the Germanic family of languages. — Countries, peoples and languages of the world · tree and pragmatics description: English, German and Dutch belong to the Germanic family of languages. Who acts: English. A sentence of the lesson «Countries, peoples and languages of the world» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Countries, peoples and languages of th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/) / 14 # Countries, peoples and languages of the world, sentence 14 English, German and Dutch belong to the Germanic family of languages. **Who acts:** English · **What happens:** belong This is a sentence of the lesson «Countries, peoples and languages of the world» 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 (English), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:046-countries-peoples-languages.lesson:14 # text = English, German and Dutch belong to the Germanic family of languages. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 046-countries-peoples-languages.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 English English PROPN NNP _ 6 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 German German PROPN NNP _ 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Dutch Dutch PROPN NNP _ 1 conj _ _ 6 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Germanic Germanic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 10 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **belong** | present | English and German and Dutch | | | | | to the Germanic family of languages | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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:world:046-countries-peoples-languages.lesson:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [Countries, peoples and languages of th…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/13/) - next →: [Natural resources and why we must save…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/)