--- title: More than half of all the people on Earth live in Asia, and most of… — East, South and South-East Asia: countries and c… · tree and pragmatics description: More than half of all the people on Earth live in Asia, and most of them live in its east, south and south-east: in China, India, Japan, Indonesia and their neighbours. Who acts: half, most. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.lesson:0 # text = More than half of all the people on Earth live in Asia, and most of them live in its east, south and south-east: in China, India, Japan, Indonesia and their neighbours. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 3 advmod _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 10 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 7 det:predet _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJS:_ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Indonesia Indonesia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | half of all people on Earth | | | Asia | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in asia=Location | | 2 | **live** | present | most of people | | | half's east and south and south east | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in east=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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