--- title: The Kurds are a people of over 30 million without their own state, s… — Languages and peoples on the map · tree and pragmatics description: The Kurds are a people of over 30 million without their own state, split mainly between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. Who acts: Kurds. A sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Languages and peoples on the map](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/) / 19 # Languages and peoples on the map, sentence 19 The Kurds are a people of over 30 million without their own state, split mainly between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. **Who acts:** Kurds · **What happens:** be, split · **To what, where:** people 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: who acts (Kurds), 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:19 # text = The Kurds are a people of over 30 million without their own state, split mainly between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Kurds Kurd PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 over over ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nummod 9 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 10 without without ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 16 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 between between ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Turkey Turkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Iran Iran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Iraq Iraq PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Syria Syria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 25 . . 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 | the Kurds | a people | | | | of 30 million; without people's own state | tree rules | | 2 | **split** | participle | | a people *not said here* | | | | between Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria; mainly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:19`. **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. **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, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/18/) - next →: [Languages and peoples on the map, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/)