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title: Most people live in fairly small parts of the land: river valleys, c… — Population and cities · tree and pragmatics
description: Most people live in fairly small parts of the land: river valleys, coastal plains and fertile lowlands, while deserts, high mountains and polar lands are nearly empty. Who acts: Most people. A sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Population and cities, sentence 12

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Most people live in fairly small parts of the land: river valleys, coastal plains and fertile lowlands, while deserts, high mountains and polar lands are nearly empty.

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**Who acts:** Most people · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** small parts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» 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 (Most people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:024-population-and-cities.lesson:12
# text = Most people live in fairly small parts of the land: river valleys, coastal plains and fertile lowlands, while deserts, high mountains and polar lands are nearly empty.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 024-population-and-cities.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	coastal	coastal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lowlands	lowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
22	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | Most people |  |  | small parts of the land |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Most people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | empty, nearly *property* | 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:024-population-and-cities.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 ×3, R7-rel-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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