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title: An enclave is a piece of one country completely surrounded by anothe… — Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed l… · tree and pragmatics
description: An enclave is a piece of one country completely surrounded by another, such as Lesotho inside South Africa, or San Marino and Vatican City inside Italy. Who acts: enclave. A sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» of the geography course of Mova's primary school
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# Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands, sentence 10

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An enclave is a piece of one country completely surrounded by another, such as Lesotho inside South Africa, or San Marino and Vatican City inside Italy.

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**Who acts:** enclave · **What happens:** be, surround · **To what, where:** piece, one country

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 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 (enclave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:039-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands.lesson:10
# text = An enclave is a piece of one country completely surrounded by another, such as Lesotho inside South Africa, or San Marino and Vatican City inside Italy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 039-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	enclave	enclave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obl:agent	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obl:agent|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	Lesotho	Lesotho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
17	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	Marino	Marino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
27	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a enclave | a piece |  |  |  | of one country | tree rules |
| 2 | **surround** | participle |  | one country *not said here* |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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:039-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands.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, 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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