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title: Latin America means the countries of the Americas where languages th… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics
description: Latin America means the countries of the Americas where languages that grew from Latin are spoken, mainly Spanish and Portuguese, and sometimes French. Who acts: Latin America, languages. A sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with
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# Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 8

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Latin America means the countries of the Americas where languages that grew from Latin are spoken, mainly Spanish and Portuguese, and sometimes French.

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**Who acts:** Latin America, languages · **What happens:** mean, grow, speak · **To what, where:** countries, languages · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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 (Latin America, languages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:8
# text = Latin America means the countries of the Americas where languages that grew from Latin are spoken, mainly Spanish and Portuguese, and sometimes French.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
10	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Portuguese	Portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Latin America | the countries of the Americas |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Topic |
| 2 | **grow** | past | languages |  |  |  |  | from Latin | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from latin=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | languages |  |  |  | Spanish *obl* | tree rules |

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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:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.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): 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/).

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