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title: The Gulf states include the United Arab Emirates (capital Abu Dhabi,… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Gulf states include the United Arab Emirates (capital Abu Dhabi, not Dubai), Qatar (Doha), Kuwait (Kuwait City), Bahrain (Manama) and Oman (Muscat). Who acts: Gulf states. A sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 14

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The Gulf states include the United Arab Emirates (capital Abu Dhabi, not Dubai), Qatar (Doha), Kuwait (Kuwait City), Bahrain (Manama) and Oman (Muscat).

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**Who acts:** Gulf states · **What happens:** include · **To what, where:** United Arab Emirates

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» 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 (Gulf states), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:14
# text = The Gulf states include the United Arab Emirates (capital Abu Dhabi, not Dubai), Qatar (Doha), Kuwait (Kuwait City), Bahrain (Manama) and Oman (Muscat).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 012-middle-east-and-central-asia.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	United	United	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
7	Arab	Arab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
8	Emirates	Emirates	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
10	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound
11	Abu	Abu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	Dhabi	Dhabi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	Dubai	Dubai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Qatar	Qatar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Doha	Doha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Kuwait	Kuwait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Bahrain	Bahrain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Manama	Manama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	Oman	Oman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Muscat	Muscat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **include** | present | the Gulf states | the United Arab Emirates and Qatar and Kuwait and Bahrain and Oman |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emirates=Theme |

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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:geography:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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