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title: Oceans cover about 71 percent of the Earth's surface, so less than a… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: Oceans cover about 71 percent of the Earth's surface, so less than a third is land. Who acts: Oceans, third. A sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Continents and oceans, sentence 13

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Oceans cover about 71 percent of the Earth's surface, so less than a third is land.

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**Who acts:** Oceans, third · **What happens:** 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 (Oceans, third), 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:13
# text = Oceans cover about 71 percent of the Earth's surface, so less than a third is land.
# 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 ×1
1	Oceans	ocean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	advcl	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
16	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **cover** | present | Oceans | 71 percent of the Earth's surface |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme percent=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | a third |  |  |  |  | than land | 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:13`.

**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 ×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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