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title: The Middle East usually means the lands from Egypt and Turkey to Ira… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Middle East usually means the lands from Egypt and Turkey to Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, and the name comes from a European view of the world. Who acts: Middle East, name. A sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 8

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The Middle East usually means the lands from Egypt and Turkey to Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, and the name comes from a European view of the world.

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**Who acts:** Middle East, name · **What happens:** mean, come, view · **To what, where:** lands, Egypt, European view, world

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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 (Middle East, name), 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:8
# text = The Middle East usually means the lands from Egypt and Turkey to Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, and the name comes from a European view of the world.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Iran	Iran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Arabian	Arabian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	amod	_	_
17	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	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	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **mean** | present | the Middle East | the lands |  | Egypt and Turkey |  | to Iran and the Arabian Peninsula; usually *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot land=Theme to iran=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | present | the name |  |  | a European view of the world |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from view=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **view** |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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): no change. **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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