--- title: The European Union is a group of 27 European countries that share a… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth · tree and pragmatics description: The European Union is a group of 27 European countries that share a single market, many common laws and, for 21 of them since Bulgaria joined in 2026, the euro. Who acts: European Union, 27 European countries, Bulgaria. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (European Union, 27 European countries, Bulgaria), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:10 # text = The European Union is a group of 27 European countries that share a single market, many common laws and, for 21 of them since Bulgaria joined in 2026, the euro. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 European European PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 27 27 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 21 21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 since since SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 Bulgaria Bulgaria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 euro euro NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the European Union | a group | | | | of 27 European countries | tree rules | | 2 | **share** | present | 27 European countries | a single market and many common laws | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **join** | past | Bulgaria | | | | | in 2026 | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 2026=Theme | 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. **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:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:10`. **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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