--- title: Saudi Arabia, with its capital Riyadh, contains Mecca and Medina, th… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics description: Saudi Arabia, with its capital Riyadh, contains Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities of Islam, and it is the largest country in the world with no river that flows all year. Who acts: Saudi Arabia, capital, river. A sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The Middle East and Central Asia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/) / 12 # The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 12 Saudi Arabia, with its capital Riyadh, contains Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities of Islam, and it is the largest country in the world with no river that flows all year. **Who acts:** Saudi Arabia, capital, river · **What happens:** contain, be, flow · **To what, where:** Mecca, largest country, world 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 (Saudi Arabia, capital, river), 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:12 # text = Saudi Arabia, with its capital Riyadh, contains Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities of Islam, and it is the largest country in the world with no river that flows all year. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Saudi Saudi PROPN NNP _ 2 compound _ _ 2 Arabia Arabia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod:poss 6 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Riyadh Riyadh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Mecca Mecca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Medina Medina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 16 holiest holey ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Islam Islam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contain** | present | Saudi Arabia | Mecca and Medina | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mecca=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | capital | the largest country | | the world | | with no river | tree rules | | 3 | **flow** | present | no river | | | | year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:12`. **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/). - ← previous: [The Middle East and Central Asia, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/11/) - next →: [The Middle East and Central Asia, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/)