The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 1
People who live there often prefer names such as South-West Asia and North Africa.
Who acts: People · What happens: live, prefer · To what, where: names
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» 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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 prefer | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 People | acl:relcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 live | advmod |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 prefer | advmod |
| 6 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 prefer | obj |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 South | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 such | fixed |
| 10 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 names | nmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Asia | punct |
| 12 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Asia | compound |
| 13 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 names | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Africa | cc |
| 15 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Africa | compound |
| 16 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Asia | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prefer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | People | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prefer | present | People | names West Asia and North Africa | such South; often property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
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:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:1.
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): 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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