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title: Gaza is a small, crowded strip of land by the sea between Israel and… — Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported · tree and pragmatics
description: Gaza is a small, crowded strip of land by the sea between Israel and Egypt, home to about two million Palestinians. Who acts: Gaza. A sentence of the lesson «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported, sentence 12

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Gaza is a small, crowded strip of land by the sea between Israel and Egypt, home to about two million Palestinians.

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**Who acts:** Gaza · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** small crowded strip

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Israel and Gaza: what happened, as widely reported» of the politics 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 (Gaza), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:026-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported.lesson:12
# text = Gaza is a small, crowded strip of land by the sea between Israel and Egypt, home to about two million Palestinians.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 026-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported.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): no change
1	Gaza	Gaza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	Palestinians	Palestinian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | Gaza | a small crowded strip |  |  |  | of land; by the sea between Israel and Egypt | 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:politics:026-israel-and-gaza-what-happened-as-widely-reported.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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