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title: No country owns Antarctica, and under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 i… — Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed l… · tree and pragmatics
description: No country owns Antarctica, and under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 it is kept for peace and science; about a dozen countries' claims are frozen by the treaty. Who acts: country, treaty, dozen countries. A sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» of the geography 
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# Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands, sentence 16

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No country owns Antarctica, and under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 it is kept for peace and science; about a dozen countries' claims are frozen by the treaty.

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**Who acts:** country, treaty, dozen countries · **What happens:** own, keep, freeze, claim · **To what, where:** Antarctica, Treaty, Antarctic Treaty, claims

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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 (country, treaty, dozen 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:16
# text = No country owns Antarctica, and under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 it is kept for peace and science; about a dozen countries' claims are frozen by the treaty.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Antarctic	Antarctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1959	1959	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	'	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **own** | present | no country | Antarctica |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot antarctica=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present · passive |  | Treaty |  | the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 |  | for peace and science | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme under treaty=Location |
| 3 | **freeze** | present · passive | the treaty | dozen countries's claims |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result |
| 4 | **claim** |  | dozen countries |  |  |  |  |  | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:16`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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