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title: Taiwan has its own government, army and elections, but China claims… — Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Taiwan has its own government, army and elections, but China claims it, and most countries do not officially recognise it as a separate state. Who acts: Taiwan, China, most countries. A sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» of the geography course of Mova's pr
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# Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands, sentence 17

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Taiwan has its own government, army and elections, but China claims it, and most countries do not officially recognise it as a separate state.

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**Who acts:** Taiwan, China, most countries · **What happens:** have, claim, not recognise · **To what, where:** own government, Treaty

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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 (Taiwan, China, most 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:17
# text = Taiwan has its own government, army and elections, but China claims it, and most countries do not officially recognise it as a separate state.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×1
1	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
9	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
12	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	claims	claim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Taiwan | Treaty's own government and army and elections |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Patient |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | China | Treaty |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **recognise** | present · do-support | most countries | Treaty |  |  |  | as a separate state; officially *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as state=Attribute |

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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:17`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×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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