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title: Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world, and Uzbek… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world, and Uzbekistan is one of only two doubly landlocked countries, with Liechtenstein: all its neighbours have no sea coast either, so it must cross two countries to reach an ocean. Who acts: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, neighbours, coast. A sentence
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# The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 19

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Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world, and Uzbekistan is one of only two doubly landlocked countries, with Liechtenstein: all its neighbours have no sea coast either, so it must cross two countries to reach an ocean.

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**Who acts:** Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, neighbours, coast · **What happens:** be, have, cross, reach · **To what, where:** largest landlocked country, world, one, sea coast, two countries, ocean

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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 (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, neighbours, coast), 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:19
# text = Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world, and Uzbekistan is one of only two doubly landlocked countries, with Liechtenstein: all its neighbours have no sea coast either, so it must cross two countries to reach an ocean.
# 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
1	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
5	landlocked	landlocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
18	doubly	doubly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	landlocked	landlocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Liechtenstein	Liechtenstein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
30	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
38	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Kazakhstan | the largest landlocked country |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Uzbekistan | one |  |  |  | of two landlocked countries with Liechtenstein | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | world's neighbours | no sea coast |  |  |  | either *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Patient |
| 4 | **cross** | must | coast | two countries |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
| 5 | **reach** | to-infinitive | coast *not said here* | a ocean |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ocean=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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**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. **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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