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title: Canada, with its capital Ottawa, is the second largest country in th… — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Canada, with its capital Ottawa, is the second largest country in the world at about 10 million square kilometres, yet has only about 41 million people, most living within a few hundred kilometres of the US border, where it is milder and the land can be farmed, while the north is very cold. Who acts
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# Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 5

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Canada, with its capital Ottawa, is the second largest country in the world at about 10 million square kilometres, yet has only about 41 million people, most living within a few hundred kilometres of the US border, where it is milder and the land can be farmed, while the north is very cold.

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**Who acts:** Canada, door, north · **What happens:** be, have, live, farm · **To what, where:** second largest country, world, million people, land

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» 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 (Canada, door, north), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson:5
# text = Canada, with its capital Ottawa, is the second largest country in the world at about 10 million square kilometres, yet has only about 41 million people, most living within a few hundred kilometres of the US border, where it is milder and the land can be farmed, while the north is very cold.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson
# annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Ottawa	Ottawa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
11	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nummod
19	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	41	41	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nummod
28	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	parataxis	_	_
33	within	within	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	46	advmod	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	milder	mild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	parataxis	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	farmed	farm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	conj	_	_
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
54	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
57	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
58	very	very	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=52:conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Canada with Ottawa  door's capital | the second largest country |  | the world |  | at million square kilometres | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Canada with Ottawa  door's capital *not said here* | million people |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | within a few hundred kilometres of the US border | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | door |  |  |  |  | mild *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **farm** | can · passive |  | the land |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | present | the north |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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