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description: Languages are written in different scripts, such as the Latin alphabet, Cyrillic (used for Russian), Arabic, Devanagari and Chinese characters, and Serbian can be written in both Cyrillic and Latin letters. A sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» of the geography course of Mova's
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# Languages and peoples on the map, sentence 17

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Languages are written in different scripts, such as the Latin alphabet, Cyrillic (used for Russian), Arabic, Devanagari and Chinese characters, and Serbian can be written in both Cyrillic and Latin letters.

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**What happens:** write, use · **To what, where:** Languages, different scripts, Cyrillic, Serbian

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» 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: 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:17
# text = Languages are written in different scripts, such as the Latin alphabet, Cyrillic (used for Russian), Arabic, Devanagari and Chinese characters, and Serbian can be written in both Cyrillic and Latin letters.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	scripts	script	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Cyrillic	cyrillic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Devanagari	Devanagari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	Serbian	serbian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc:preconj	_	_
35	Cyrillic	cyrillic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:amod
38	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
39	.	.	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 | **write** | present · passive |  | Languages |  | different scripts such the Latin alphabet and Cyrillic and Arabic and Devanagari and Chinese characters |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in script=Destination |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | Cyrillic *not said here* |  |  |  | for Russian | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **write** | can · passive |  | Serbian |  | Cyrillic and letters |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cyrillic=Destination |

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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:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:17`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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