Continents and oceans, sentence 9
Africa is the second largest continent, with about a fifth of the world's land, and it lies on both sides of the equator.
Who acts: Africa, land · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: second largest continent, sides
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 (Africa, land), 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 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 continent | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 continent | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 continent | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 continent | amod |
| 5 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 continent | amod |
| 6 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fifth | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fifth | case |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 fifth | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fifth | det |
| 11 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continent | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 land | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 world | case |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fifth | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 continent | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lies | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lies | nsubj |
| 20 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 continent | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 sides | case |
| 22 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sides | det |
| 23 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lies | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 equator | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 equator | det |
| 26 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sides | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | Africa | the second largest continent | with a fifth of the world's land | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | present | land | both sides of the equator | 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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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