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title: Vatican City, inside Rome, is the smallest country in the world at a… — Europe: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Vatican City, inside Rome, is the smallest country in the world at about 0.44 square kilometres, and it is ruled by the Pope; it is all that is left of the Pope's lands, the rest of which joined Italy by 1870. Who acts: Vatican, Pope, rest. A sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» o
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# Europe: countries and capitals, sentence 7

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Vatican City, inside Rome, is the smallest country in the world at about 0.44 square kilometres, and it is ruled by the Pope; it is all that is left of the Pope's lands, the rest of which joined Italy by 1870.

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**Who acts:** Vatican, Pope, rest · **What happens:** be, rule, leave, join · **To what, where:** smallest country, world, Italy

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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 (Vatican, Pope, rest), 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:7
# text = Vatican City, inside Rome, is the smallest country in the world at about 0.44 square kilometres, and it is ruled by the Pope; it is all that is left of the Pope's lands, the rest of which joined Italy by 1870.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	0.44	0.44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:nsubj
44	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:acl:relcl
45	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	1870	1870	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | Vatican inside Rome | the smallest country |  | the world |  | at 0.44 square kilometres | tree rules |
| 2 | **rule** | present · passive | the Pope | world |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | present · passive |  | world |  |  |  | of the Pope's lands | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of land=Destination |
| 4 | **join** | past | the rest | Italy |  |  |  | by 1870 | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent italy=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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**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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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.

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