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title: The African Union links all 55 African countries to work together on… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth · tree and pragmatics
description: The African Union links all 55 African countries to work together on peace, trade and development, and its headquarters is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Who acts: African Union, headquarters. A sentence of the lesson «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» of the geography course of Mova's 
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# Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth, sentence 15

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The African Union links all 55 African countries to work together on peace, trade and development, and its headquarters is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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**Who acts:** African Union, headquarters · **What happens:** link, work together, be · **To what, where:** 55 African countries, Addis Ababa

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» 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 (African Union, headquarters), 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:15
# text = The African Union links all 55 African countries to work together on peace, trade and development, and its headquarters is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	links	link	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:PronType=Tot
6	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Addis	Addis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Ababa	Ababa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **link** | present | the African Union | all 55 African countries |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
| 2 | **work together** | to-infinitive | the African Union *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on peace and trade and development; together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on peace=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Union's headquarters |  |  | Addis Ababa |  |  | tree rules |

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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:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:15`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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