--- title: The UN Security Council has five permanent members, the USA, Russia,… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth · tree and pragmatics description: The UN Security Council has five permanent members, the USA, Russia, China, the UK and France, each of whom can veto a decision. Who acts: UN Security Council, each. 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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 (UN Security Council, each), 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:6 # text = The UN Security Council has five permanent members, the USA, Russia, China, the UK and France, each of whom can veto a decision. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 UN UN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 Security Security PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Council Council PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 permanent permanent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nmod _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 veto veto VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl:relcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the UN Security Council | five permanent members | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Patient | | 2 | **veto** | can | each | a decision | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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