East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals, sentence 4

Picture a class atlas open at Asia: the giant shapes of China and India, the long chain of Japan's islands, and thousands of islands of Indonesia and the Philippines scattered like crumbs across the sea.

Who acts: you, thousands · What happens: picture, scatter · To what, where: class atlas, sea

This is a sentence of the lesson «East, South and South-East Asia: 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 (you, thousands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 atlas	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 atlas	compound
4	atlas	atlas	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 atlas	amod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Asia	case
7	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 open	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 shapes	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shapes	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shapes	amod
11	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Picture	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 China	case
13	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shapes	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 India	cc
15	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 China	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 chain	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chain	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 chain	amod
19	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 China	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 islands	case
21	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 islands	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Japan	case
23	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 chain	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 scattered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 scattered	cc
26	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 scattered	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 islands	case
28	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 thousands	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Indonesia	case
30	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 islands	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Philippines	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Philippines	det
33	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	Number=Ptan	30 Indonesia	conj
34	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	conj
35	like	like	ADP	_	36 crumbs	case
36	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 scattered	obl
37	across	across	ADP	_	39 sea	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sea	det
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 scattered	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a class atlas				the giant shapes of China and India obl	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent atlas=Theme
2	scatter	past	thousands of islands of Indonesia and the Philippines			the sea		like crumbs	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across sea=Destination

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.

Licence: CC 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:011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.lesson:4.

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 ×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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