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title: Many countries argue that the Security Council is out of date becaus… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth · tree and pragmatics
description: Many countries argue that the Security Council is out of date because no country from Africa or Latin America has a permanent seat. Who acts: Many countries, Security Council, country. A sentence of the lesson «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» of the geography course of Mova's pri
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# Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth, sentence 7

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Many countries argue that the Security Council is out of date because no country from Africa or Latin America has a permanent seat.

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**Who acts:** Many countries, Security Council, country · **What happens:** argue, be, have · **To what, where:** date, permanent seat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many countries, Security Council, country), 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:7
# text = Many countries argue that the Security Council is out of date because no country from Africa or Latin America has a permanent seat.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Security	Security	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Many countries |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Security Council |  |  | date |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | no country from Africa or Latin America | a permanent seat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=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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**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.

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