--- title: Continents and oceans — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Continents and oceans», a lesson of the geography course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Look at a globe from below and you see mostly blue: oceans cover about 71 percent of the Earth, and all the land together is less than a third. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/) [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/) / Continents and oceans # Continents and oceans Lesson 5 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/0/) — Look at a globe from below and you see mostly blue: oceans cover about 71 percent of the Earth, and all the land together is less than a third. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/1/) — The land is split into continents, but how many depends on who is counting: seven in Britain and America, six where one America is taught, five rings on the Olympic flag. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/2/) — That is a human agreement, like the EU5 designers deciding where one region ends and the next begins; Europe and Asia are really one landmass, Eurasia. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/3/) — The oceans are really one world ocean too, given five names, just as the game cuts the sea into many sea zones for moving fleets. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/6/) — In many Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries, children learn one America, giving six continents, and the Olympic rings stand for five inhabited continents. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/7/) — Asia is the largest continent, with about 44 million square kilometres, almost a third of all land, and nearly six in ten of the world's people; India and China alone hold more than a third of all people. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/8/) — Europe and Asia are one landmass, often called Eurasia, and the usual boundary follows the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus, the Black Sea and the Bosporus, a narrow strait; the city of Istanbul lies on both sides of it, partly in Europe and partly in Asia. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/9/) — Africa is the second largest continent, with about a fifth of the world's land, and it lies on both sides of the equator. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/10/) — Australia is the smallest continent, with about 7.7 million square kilometres, and it is the only continent that is a single country; it is such a big landmass on its own that it is counted as a continent, not just an island. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/12/) — The Pacific Ocean covers about 165 million square kilometres, which is more than all the land on Earth put together; Magellan named it Pacific, "peaceful", after a calm crossing in 1520, but it has fierce storms too. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/13/) — Oceans cover about 71 percent of the Earth's surface, so less than a third is land. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/14/) — The deepest known point of the ocean is the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, about 10,900 metres down. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/15/) — About two-thirds of the Earth's land lies in the northern hemisphere. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/16/) — Antarctica has no permanent residents, only scientists and staff who stay for a season or a year. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/17/) — Portuguese ships spent decades creeping down Africa's coast before Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. - ← previous: [Time zones and the date line](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/) - next →: [Islands, seas and lakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/)