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title: Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, at about 0.44 squ… — Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, at about 0.44 square kilometres, and Monaco is the second smallest. Who acts: Vatican City, Monaco. A sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands, sentence 5

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Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, at about 0.44 square kilometres, and Monaco is the second smallest.

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**Who acts:** Vatican City, Monaco · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** smallest country, world

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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 (Vatican City, Monaco), 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:5
# text = Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, at about 0.44 square kilometres, and Monaco is the second smallest.
# 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
1	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	0.44	0.44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	15	nummod	_	_
14	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	Monaco	Monaco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | Vatican City | the smallest country |  | the world |  | at 0.44 square kilometres | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Monaco |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

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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:5`.

**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. **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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