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title: Lake Superior, between Canada and the United States, is the largest… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Lake Superior, between Canada and the United States, is the largest freshwater lake by area, at about 82,000 square kilometres. Who acts: Lake. 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 cla
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# Islands, seas and lakes, sentence 12

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Lake Superior, between Canada and the United States, is the largest freshwater lake by area, at about 82,000 square kilometres.

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**Who acts:** Lake · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** largest freshwater lake, 82,000 square kilometres

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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 (Lake), 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:12
# text = Lake Superior, between Canada and the United States, is the largest freshwater lake by area, at about 82,000 square kilometres.
# 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	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
2	Superior	Superior	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	United	United	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	freshwater	freshwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	82,000	82,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Lake | the largest freshwater lake |  | 82,000 square kilometres |  | by area | 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:006-islands-seas-and-lakes.lesson:12`.

**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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