--- title: Asia is the largest continent, with about 44 million square kilometr… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics description: Asia is the largest continent, with about 44 million square kilometres, almost a third of all land, and nearly six in ten of the world's people; India and China alone hold more than a third of all people. Who acts: Asia, India. A sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» of the geography course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Continents and oceans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/) / 7 # Continents and oceans, sentence 7 Asia is the largest continent, with about 44 million square kilometres, almost a third of all land, and nearly six in ten of the world's people; India and China alone hold more than a third of all people. **Who acts:** Asia, India · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** largest continent, third 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 (Asia, India), 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:7 # text = Asia is the largest continent, with about 44 million square kilometres, almost a third of all land, and nearly six in ten of the world's people; India and China alone hold more than a third of all people. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Asia Asia 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 largest large 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 44 44 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 compound _ _ 10 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 almost almost ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nmod:unmarked _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 32 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=32:cc 34 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 alone alone ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obj 38 than than ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:nmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obl 44 . . 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 | Asia | the largest continent | | | | with million square kilometres | tree rules | | 2 | **hold** | present | India and China | a third of all people | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme | 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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/6/) - next →: [Continents and oceans, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/)