--- title: Gibraltar, at the southern tip of Spain, guards the narrow strait be… — Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed l… · tree and pragmatics description: Gibraltar, at the southern tip of Spain, guards the narrow strait between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; it has been a British territory since 1713, and Spain still claims it. Who acts: strait, Spain. 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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 (strait, Spain), 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:13 # text = Gibraltar, at the southern tip of Spain, guards the narrow strait between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; it has been a British territory since 1713, and Spain still claims it. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Gibraltar Gibraltar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 3 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 guards guard VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 strait strait NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 between between ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Atlantic Atlantic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 22 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 27 since since ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 1713 1713 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nmod 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 still still ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 claims claim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guard** | present | | the narrow strait | | | | between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strait=Beneficiary | | 2 | **is a** | present · perfect | strait | a British territory | | | since 1713 | | tree rules | | 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | Spain | strait | | | still | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:039-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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