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title: The European Union has 27 member countries after the United Kingdom… — Europe: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: The European Union has 27 member countries after the United Kingdom left in 2020, and 21 of them use the euro since Bulgaria joined it in 2026. Who acts: European Union, United Kingdom, 21, Bulgaria. A sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary 
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# Europe: countries and capitals, sentence 15

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The European Union has 27 member countries after the United Kingdom left in 2020, and 21 of them use the euro since Bulgaria joined it in 2026.

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**Who acts:** European Union, United Kingdom, 21, Bulgaria · **What happens:** have, leave, use, join · **To what, where:** 27 member countries, 2020, euro, 2026

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» 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 (European Union, United Kingdom, 21, Bulgaria), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:007-europe-countries-and-capitals.lesson:15
# text = The European Union has 27 member countries after the United Kingdom left in 2020, and 21 of them use the euro since Bulgaria joined it in 2026.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 007-europe-countries-and-capitals.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	United	United	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	euro	Euro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | the European Union | 27 member countries |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the United Kingdom |  |  |  |  | in 2020 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2020=Result |
| 3 | **use** | present | 21 of countries | the euro |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent euro=Patient |
| 4 | **join** | past | Bulgaria | euro |  | 2026 |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:007-europe-countries-and-capitals.lesson:15`.

**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, R8-pos-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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