The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 19
Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world, and Uzbekistan is one of only two doubly landlocked countries, with Liechtenstein: all its neighbours have no sea coast either, so it must cross two countries to reach an ocean.
Who acts: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, neighbours, coast · What happens: be, have, cross, reach · To what, where: largest landlocked country, world, one, sea coast, two countries, ocean
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 (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, neighbours, coast), 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 | Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 country | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 country | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 4 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 country | amod |
| 5 | landlocked | landlocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 country | amod |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 country | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 one | cc |
| 12 | Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 country | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 countries | case |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 two | advmod |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 countries | nummod |
| 18 | doubly | doubly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 landlocked | advmod |
| 19 | landlocked | landlocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 countries | amod |
| 20 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Liechtenstein | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Liechtenstein | case |
| 23 | Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 countries | nmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 neighbours | det:predet |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 27 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 country | parataxis |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 coast | det |
| 30 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 coast | compound |
| 31 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 32 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 have | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 cross | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 cross | advmod |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 cross | nsubj |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 cross | aux |
| 37 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 have | parataxis |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 countries | nummod |
| 39 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 cross | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 reach | mark |
| 41 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 cross | advcl |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 ocean | det |
| 43 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 reach | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 country | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kazakhstan | the largest landlocked country | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Uzbekistan | one | of two landlocked countries with Liechtenstein | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | world's neighbours | no sea coast | either property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coast=Patient | |||
| 4 | cross | must | coast | two countries | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient | ||||
| 5 | reach | to-infinitive | coast not said here | a ocean | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme |
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:19.
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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