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title: Picture a class atlas open at Asia: the giant shapes of China and In… — East, South and South-East Asia: countries and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a class atlas open at Asia: the giant shapes of China and India, the long chain of Japan's islands, and thousands of islands of Indonesia and the Philippines scattered like crumbs across the sea. Who acts: you, thousands. A sentence of the lesson «East, South and South-East Asia: countries a
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# East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals, sentence 4

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Picture a class atlas open at Asia: the giant shapes of China and India, the long chain of Japan's islands, and thousands of islands of Indonesia and the Philippines scattered like crumbs across the sea.

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**Who acts:** you, thousands · **What happens:** picture, scatter · **To what, where:** class atlas, sea

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This is a sentence of the lesson «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» 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 (you, thousands), 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:4
# text = Picture a class atlas open at Asia: the giant shapes of China and India, the long chain of Japan's islands, and thousands of islands of Indonesia and the Philippines scattered like crumbs across the sea.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	atlas	atlas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Ptan	30	conj	_	_
34	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
37	across	across	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a class atlas |  |  |  | the giant shapes of China and India *obl* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent atlas=Theme |
| 2 | **scatter** | past | thousands of islands of Indonesia and the Philippines |  |  | the sea |  | like crumbs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across sea=Destination |

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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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**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:4`.

**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.

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

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