Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands, sentence 0

Most countries are big blobs on the map, but a few are so tiny you could walk across them before lunch: Vatican City is smaller than many city parks, and Monaco is the second smallest country in the world.

Who acts: Most countries, big blobs, you, Vatican City, Monaco · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: big blobs, map, second smallest country, world

This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 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 (Most countries, big blobs, you, Vatican City), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 countries	amod
2	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blobs	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blobs	cop
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blobs	amod
5	blobs	blob	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tiny	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 map	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 map	det
8	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blobs	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 few	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 few	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 few	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blobs	conj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tiny	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 tiny	advmod
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 walk	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 walk	aux
18	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tiny	ccomp
19	across	across	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walk	obl
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 lunch	case
22	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 walk	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 smaller	punct
24	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 City	compound
25	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 smaller	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 smaller	cop
27	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 tiny	conj
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 parks	case
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 parks	amod
30	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 parks	compound
31	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 smaller	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 country	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 country	cc
34	Monaco	Monaco	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 country	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 country	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 country	det
37	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	39 country	amod
38	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 country	amod
39	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tiny	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 world	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 world	det
42	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 country	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blobs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Most countries	big blobs	the map			tree rules
2	be		Most countries not said here					tree rules
3	is	present	big blobs				tiny property	tree rules
4	walk	could	you			before lunch	across blobs = blob	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across they=Trajectory
5	is	present	Vatican City				than many city parks; small property	tree rules
6	is a	present	Monaco	the second smallest country	the world			tree rules

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:039-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands.lesson:0.

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): R6-punct-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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