--- title: The land is split into continents, but how many depends on who is co… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: many. 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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 (many), 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:1 # text = 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. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 continents continent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nsubj _ _ 11 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 on on SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:appos 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 taught teach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:parataxis 29 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 30 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 list _ _ 31 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Olympic olympic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **split** | present · passive | | the land | | | | into continents *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into continent=Result | | 2 | **depend** | present | many | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **count** | present · progressive | | seven rings | | the Olympic flag | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · passive | | one America | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:005-continents-and-oceans.lesson:1`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Continents and oceans, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/0/) - next →: [Continents and oceans, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/)