--- title: Algeria is the largest country in Africa by area, and most of it is… — Africa: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics description: Algeria is the largest country in Africa by area, and most of it is Sahara desert, so most Algerians live near the Mediterranean coast. Who acts: Algeria, most, most Algerians. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Algeria, most, most Algerians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:8 # text = Algeria is the largest country in Africa by area, and most of it is Sahara desert, so most Algerians live near the Mediterranean coast. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 013-africa-countries-and-capitals.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, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Algeria Algeria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 Sahara Sahara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 Algerians Algerian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 near near ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Mediterranean Mediterranean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 26 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Algeria | the largest country and Sahara desert | | Africa | | by area | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | most of area | Sahara desert | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | present | most Algerians | | | the Mediterranean coast | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near coast=Location | 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:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:8`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Africa: countries and capitals, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/7/) - next →: [Africa: countries and capitals, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/)