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title: Eight countries have land in the Arctic: Canada, Denmark through Gre… — The Arctic and Antarctica · tree and pragmatics
description: Eight countries have land in the Arctic: Canada, Denmark through Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States. Who acts: Eight countries. A sentence of the lesson «The Arctic and Antarctica» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# The Arctic and Antarctica, sentence 14

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Eight countries have land in the Arctic: Canada, Denmark through Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.

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**Who acts:** Eight countries · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** land, Arctic

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic and Antarctica» 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 (Eight countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:015-the-arctic-and-antarctica.lesson:14
# text = Eight countries have land in the Arctic: Canada, Denmark through Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 015-the-arctic-and-antarctica.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): no change
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	27	flat	_	_
27	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Eight countries | land |  | the Arctic |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |

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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:015-the-arctic-and-antarctica.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): no change. **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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