--- title: The Pacific Ocean covers about 165 million square kilometres, which… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Pacific Ocean, million square kilometres, Magellan, land. 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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 (Pacific Ocean, million square kilometres, Magellan, 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:12 # text = 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. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 165 165 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 together together ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Magellan Magellan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 named name VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 peaceful peaceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:parataxis 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 crossing crossing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 1520 1520 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 42 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 too too ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present | the Pacific Ocean | million square kilometres | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent kilometre=Destination | | 2 | **is** | present | million square kilometres | | | | | more *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **put together** | past | million square kilometres *not said here* | | | | | than all land on Earth; together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **name** | past | Magellan | land | | | after a calm crossing in 1520 | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | land | fierce storms | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=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. 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