Continents and oceans, sentence 10
Australia is the smallest continent, with about 7.7 million square kilometres, and it is the only continent that is a single country; it is such a big landmass on its own that it is counted as a continent, not just an island.
Who acts: Australia, land, only continent, big landmass · What happens: be, count · To what, where: smallest continent, only continent, single country, big landmass, own, land
This is a sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» 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 (Australia, land, only continent, big landmass), 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 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 continent | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 continent | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 continent | det |
| 4 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 continent | amod |
| 5 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kilometres | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 kilometres | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 million | advmod |
| 9 | 7.7 | 7.7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 million | compound |
| 10 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 kilometres | nummod |
| 11 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kilometres | amod |
| 12 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 continent | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 continent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 continent | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 continent | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 continent | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 continent | det |
| 18 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 continent | amod |
| 19 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continent | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 country | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 country | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 23 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 country | amod |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 continent | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 landmass | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 landmass | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 landmass | cop |
| 28 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 landmass | det:predet |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 landmass | det |
| 30 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 landmass | amod |
| 31 | landmass | landmass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continent | parataxis |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 own | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 own | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 landmass | nmod |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 counted | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 counted | aux:pass |
| 38 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 landmass | acl |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 continent | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 continent | det |
| 41 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 counted | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 island | punct |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 island | advmod |
| 44 | just | just | ADV | _ | 46 island | advmod |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 island | det |
| 46 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 continent | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continent | 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 | Australia | the smallest continent and the only continent | with million square kilometres | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | land | the only continent | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the only continent | a single country | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | land | such big landmass | land's own | tree rules | |||
| 5 | count | present · passive | such big landmass not said here | land | as a continent and a island | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as continent=Attribute |
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:005-continents-and-oceans.lesson:10.
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 ×3. 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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