Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 8
Algeria is the largest country in Africa by area, and most of it is Sahara desert, so most Algerians live near the Mediterranean coast.
Who acts: Algeria, most, most Algerians · What happens: be, live · To what, where: largest country, Africa, Sahara desert, Mediterranean coast
This is a sentence of the lesson «Africa: 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 (Algeria, most, most Algerians), 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 | Algeria | Algeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 country | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 country | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 4 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Africa | case |
| 7 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 country | nmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 area | case |
| 9 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 country | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 desert | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 desert | cc |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 desert | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 most | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 desert | cop |
| 16 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 desert | compound |
| 17 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 country | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 live | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 live | advmod |
| 20 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 Algerians | amod |
| 21 | Algerians | Algerian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 live | nsubj |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 desert | conj |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 26 coast | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 coast | det |
| 25 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 coast | amod |
| 26 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 live | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 country | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Algeria | the largest country and Sahara desert | Africa | by area | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | present | most of area | Sahara desert | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | present | most Algerians | the Mediterranean coast | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near coast=Location |
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:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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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