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title: South Sudan, with its capital Juba, became the world's newest widely… — Africa: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: South Sudan, with its capital Juba, became the world's newest widely recognised country in 2011. Who acts: South Sudan. A sentence of the lesson «Africa: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 9

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South Sudan, with its capital Juba, became the world's newest widely recognised country in 2011.

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**Who acts:** South Sudan · **What happens:** become, recognise · **To what, where:** newest recognised country, 2011

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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 (South Sudan), 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:9
# text = South Sudan, with its capital Juba, became the world's newest widely recognised country in 2011.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Sudan	Sudan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod:poss
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Juba	juba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	newest	new	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
14	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:acl
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2011	2011	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **become** | past | South Sudan with capital Juba | the world's newest recognised country |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **recognise** | participle |  |  |  | 2011 |  | widely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:9`.

**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, 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/).

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