The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, sentence 3
Australia is a whole continent and a country, with Canberra as its capital; most of its middle, the Outback, is hot dry desert, so most Australians live near the coasts in cities such as Sydney and Melbourne.
Who acts: Australia, most, most Australians · What happens: be, live · To what, where: whole continent, hot dry desert, coasts
This is a sentence of the lesson «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» of the world 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, most, most Australians), 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 continent | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 continent | amod |
| 5 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 country | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continent | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 capital | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 capital | case |
| 11 | Canberra | Canberra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 capital | appos |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 capital | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 capital | nmod:poss |
| 14 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continent | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 continent | punct |
| 16 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 desert | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 middle | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 middle | nmod:poss |
| 19 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 most | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 most | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Outback | det |
| 22 | Outback | Outback | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 middle | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 most | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 desert | cop |
| 25 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 desert | amod |
| 26 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 desert | amod |
| 27 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continent | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 live | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 live | advmod |
| 30 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 Australians | amod |
| 31 | Australians | australian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 32 live | nsubj |
| 32 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 desert | conj |
| 33 | near | near | ADP | _ | 35 coasts | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 coasts | det |
| 35 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 live | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 cities | case |
| 37 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 live | obl |
| 38 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 40 Sydney | case |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 such | fixed |
| 40 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 cities | nmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Melbourne | cc |
| 42 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Sydney | conj |
| 43 | . | . | 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 | a whole continent and a country | with country's capital | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | most of capital's middle | hot dry desert | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | present | most Australians | the coasts | in cities such Sydney and Melbourne | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=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:world:045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.lesson:3.
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. 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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