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title: People who live there often prefer names such as South-West Asia and… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: People who live there often prefer names such as South-West Asia and North Africa. Who acts: People. A sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 1

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People who live there often prefer names such as South-West Asia and North Africa.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** live, prefer · **To what, where:** names

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» 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 (People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:1
# text = People who live there often prefer names such as South-West Asia and North Africa.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 012-middle-east-and-central-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
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
12	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **live** | present | People |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **prefer** | present | People | names  West Asia and North Africa |  |  |  | such South; often *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |

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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:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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