Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands, sentence 16

No country owns Antarctica, and under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 it is kept for peace and science; about a dozen countries' claims are frozen by the treaty.

Who acts: country, treaty, dozen countries · What happens: own, keep, freeze, claim · To what, where: Antarctica, Treaty, Antarctic Treaty, claims

This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» of the geography 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 (country, treaty, dozen countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owns	nsubj
3	owns	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 owns	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kept	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kept	cc
7	under	under	ADP	_	10 Treaty	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Treaty	det
9	Antarctic	Antarctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Treaty	compound
10	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 kept	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 1959	case
12	1959	1959	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 Treaty	nmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kept	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 kept	aux:pass
15	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 owns	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 peace	case
17	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 science	cc
19	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 peace	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 frozen	punct
21	about	about	ADV	_	23 dozen	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dozen	det
23	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 countries	nummod
24	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 claims	nmod:poss
25	'	's	PART	_	24 countries	case
26	claims	claim	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 frozen	nsubj:pass
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 frozen	aux:pass
28	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 owns	parataxis
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 treaty	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 treaty	det
31	treaty	treaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 frozen	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 owns	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	own	present	no country	Antarctica			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot antarctica=Theme
2	keep	present · passive		Treaty	the Antarctic Treaty of 1959	for peace and science	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme under treaty=Location
3	freeze	present · passive	the treaty	dozen countries's claims			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result
4	claim		dozen countries				nom claim «communication 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, 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:geography:039-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands.lesson:16.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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