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title: The ending «stan» comes from Persian and means «land of» or «place o… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: The ending «stan» comes from Persian and means «land of» or «place of». Who acts: ending. 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 18

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The ending «stan» comes from Persian and means «land of» or «place of».

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**Who acts:** ending · **What happens:** come, mean · **To what, where:** Persian, land

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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 (ending), 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:18
# text = The ending «stan» comes from Persian and means «land of» or «place of».
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	»	»	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **come** | present | the ending  stan |  |  | Persian |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from persian=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the ending  stan *not said here* | land of » or place |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |

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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:18`.

**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, R6-punct-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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