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title: Africa has 54 countries that are members of the United Nations, more… — Africa: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Africa has 54 countries that are members of the United Nations, more than any other continent, plus disputed lands such as Western Sahara and Somaliland. Who acts: Africa, 54 countries. A sentence of the lesson «Africa: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 7

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Africa has 54 countries that are members of the United Nations, more than any other continent, plus disputed lands such as Western Sahara and Somaliland.

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**Who acts:** Africa, 54 countries · **What happens:** have, be, dispute · **To what, where:** 54 countries, members

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Africa: countries and capitals» 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 (Africa, 54 countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:7
# text = Africa has 54 countries that are members of the United Nations, more than any other continent, plus disputed lands such as Western Sahara and Somaliland.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 013-africa-countries-and-capitals.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	11	compound	_	_
11	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	disputed	dispute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:appos
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Africa | 54 countries plus disputed lands such Western Sahara and Somaliland |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 54 countries plus disputed lands such Western Sahara and Somaliland | members |  |  |  | of the United Nations | tree rules |
| 3 | **dispute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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:geography:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:7`.

**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, R8-pos-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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