--- title: A sea is a smaller part of the ocean, often half-closed by land, lik… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics description: A sea is a smaller part of the ocean, often half-closed by land, like the Mediterranean of Venice and Genoa or the Baltic of the Hanseatic towns you trade in EU5. Who acts: sea, you. 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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 (sea, you), 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:1 # text = A sea is a smaller part of the ocean, often half-closed by land, like the Mediterranean of Venice and Genoa or the Baltic of the Hanseatic towns you trade in EU5. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 14 advmod _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 15 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Venice Venice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Genoa Genoa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Baltic Baltic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Hanseatic hanseatic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 trade trade VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 EU5 EU5 PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a sea | a smaller part | | | | of the ocean | tree rules | | 2 | **close** | participle | | a smaller part *not said here* | | | | by land; like the Mediterranean of Venice and Genoa or the Baltic of the Hanseatic towns; half, often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **trade** | present | you | the Hanseatic towns *not said here* | | EU5 | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=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:006-islands-seas-and-lakes.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Islands, seas and lakes, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/0/) - next →: [Islands, seas and lakes, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/)