--- title: Australia is the smallest continent, with about 7.7 million square k… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Australia, land, only continent, big landmass. 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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 (Australia, land, only continent, big landmass), 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:10 # text = 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. # 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 ×3 1 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 7.7 7.7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nummod 10 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 square square ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 28 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 31 det:predet _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 landmass landmass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 nmod _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 44 just just ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 45 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Australia | the smallest continent and the only continent | | | | with million square kilometres | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | land | the only continent | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the only continent | a single country | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | land | such big landmass | | land's own | | | tree rules | | 5 | **count** | present · passive | such big landmass *not said here* | land | | | | as a continent and a island | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as continent=Attribute | 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:10`. **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 ×3. **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, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/9/) - next →: [Continents and oceans, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/)