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title: An island is land with water all round; the biggest is Greenland, be… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics
description: An island is land with water all round; the biggest is Greenland, because Australia is counted as a continent instead. Who acts: island, biggest. A sentence of the lesson «Islands, seas and lakes» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Islands, seas and lakes, sentence 0

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An island is land with water all round; the biggest is Greenland, because Australia is counted as a continent instead.

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**Who acts:** island, biggest · **What happens:** be, count · **To what, where:** land, Greenland, Australia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Islands, seas and lakes» 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 (island, biggest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:006-islands-seas-and-lakes.lesson:0
# text = An island is land with water all round; the biggest is Greenland, because Australia is counted as a continent instead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 006-islands-seas-and-lakes.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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	round	round	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | a island | land |  |  |  | with water | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the biggest | Greenland |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | present · passive |  | Australia |  |  |  | as a continent; instead *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as continent=Attribute |

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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:006-islands-seas-and-lakes.lesson:0`.

**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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