Continents and oceans, sentence 8

Europe and Asia are one landmass, often called Eurasia, and the usual boundary follows the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus, the Black Sea and the Bosporus, a narrow strait; the city of Istanbul lies on both sides of it, partly in Europe and partly in Asia.

Who acts: Europe, usual boundary, city · What happens: be, call, follow, lie · To what, where: one landmass, Ural Mountains, sides · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Europe, usual boundary, 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	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 landmass	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Asia	cc
3	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Europe	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 landmass	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 landmass	nummod
6	landmass	landmass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 called	advmod
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 landmass	acl
10	Eurasia	Eurasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 follows	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 follows	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boundary	det
14	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boundary	amod
15	boundary	boundary	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 follows	nsubj
16	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 landmass	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Mountains	det
18	Ural	Ural	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Mountains	compound
19	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 follows	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 River	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 River	det
22	Ural	Ural	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 River	compound
23	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Mountains	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Sea	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Sea	det
26	Caspian	Caspian	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Sea	compound
27	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 River	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Caucasus	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Caucasus	det
30	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 River	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Sea	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Sea	det
33	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Sea	amod
34	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 River	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Bosporus	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Bosporus	det
37	Bosporus	Bosporus	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Sea	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 strait	punct
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 strait	det
40	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 strait	amod
41	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 River	appos
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 lies	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 city	det
44	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lies	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Istanbul	case
46	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 city	nmod
47	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 landmass	conj
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 sides	case
49	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	50 sides	det
50	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 lies	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 sides	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 Europe	punct
54	partly	partly	ADV	_	56 Europe	advmod
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 Europe	case
56	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 lies	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 Asia	cc
58	partly	partly	ADV	_	60 Asia	advmod
59	in	in	ADP	_	60 Asia	case
60	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Europe	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 landmass	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Europe and Asia	one landmass			tree rules
2	call	participle		one landmass not said here		often property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	follow	present	the usual boundary	the Ural Mountains and the Ural River and the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus and the Black Sea and the Bosporus			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme
4	lie	present	the city of Istanbul		both sides of boundary	in Europe and Asia	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=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:005-continents-and-oceans.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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