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title: Look at a globe from below and you see mostly blue: oceans cover abo… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: you, oceans, land. A sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Continents and oceans, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** you, oceans, land · **What happens:** look, see, cover, be · **To what, where:** 71 percent

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» 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 (you, oceans, land), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:005-continents-and-oceans.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 005-continents-and-oceans.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
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	globe	globe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	below	below	ADV	RB	_	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	oceans	ocean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a globe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at globe=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cover** | present | oceans | 71 percent of the Earth |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme percent=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | present | all land |  |  |  |  | than a third; less *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:005-continents-and-oceans.lesson:0`.

**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. **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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