--- title: Spanish is the main language of most of Latin America, Portuguese of… — Languages and peoples on the map · tree and pragmatics description: Spanish is the main language of most of Latin America, Portuguese of Brazil, and English and French are official languages in many African countries. Who acts: Spanish. 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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 (Spanish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:14 # text = Spanish is the main language of most of Latin America, Portuguese of Brazil, and English and French are official languages in many African countries. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Spanish Spanish 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 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Portuguese Portuguese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Spanish | the main language and official languages | | | | of most of Latin and English and French and Portuguese of Brazil | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Spanish *not said here* | official languages | | many African countries | | | tree rules | 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:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Languages and peoples on the map, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/13/) - next →: [Languages and peoples on the map, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/)