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title: The Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic are a British territory t… — Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed l… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic are a British territory that Argentina claims as the Malvinas, and the two countries fought a short war over them in 1982. Who acts: Falkland Islands, Argentina, two countries. A sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 
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# Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands, sentence 14

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The Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic are a British territory that Argentina claims as the Malvinas, and the two countries fought a short war over them in 1982.

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**Who acts:** Falkland Islands, Argentina, two countries · **What happens:** be, claim, fight · **To what, where:** British territory, short war, 1982

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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 (Falkland Islands, Argentina, two countries), 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:14
# text = The Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic are a British territory that Argentina claims as the Malvinas, and the two countries fought a short war over them in 1982.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Falkland	Falkland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	claims	claim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Malvinas	Malvinas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	1982	1982	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is a** | present | the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic | a British territory |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | Argentina | a British territory |  |  |  | as the Malvinas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 3 | **fight** | past | the two countries | a short war |  | 1982 |  | over Atlantic | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent war=Co-Agent over they=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:14`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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