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title: The shore of the Dead Sea, between Israel, the West Bank and Jordan,… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics
description: The shore of the Dead Sea, between Israel, the West Bank and Jordan, is about 430 metres below sea level, the lowest land on Earth, and its water is almost ten times saltier than the ocean, so heavy (dense) that people float on it easily. Who acts: shore, water, people. A sentence of the lesson «Isl
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# Islands, seas and lakes, sentence 15

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The shore of the Dead Sea, between Israel, the West Bank and Jordan, is about 430 metres below sea level, the lowest land on Earth, and its water is almost ten times saltier than the ocean, so heavy (dense) that people float on it easily.

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**Who acts:** shore, water, people · **What happens:** be, float · **To what, where:** 430 metres, sea level, water

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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 (shore, water, people), 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:15
# text = The shore of the Dead Sea, between Israel, the West Bank and Jordan, is about 430 metres below sea level, the lowest land on Earth, and its water is almost ten times saltier than the ocean, so heavy (dense) that people float on it easily.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Dead	Dead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Bank	Bank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	430	430	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
21	below	below	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
35	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	saltier	salty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	parataxis	_	_
39	than	than	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	parataxis	_	_
45	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	46	punct	_	_
46	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	_
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	46	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
50	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
51	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	_
53	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the shore of the Dead Sea and Jordan between Israel and the West Bank | 430 metres |  | sea level |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | sea's water |  |  |  | time | than the ocean; salty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **float** | present | people |  |  | water |  | easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |

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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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**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, R6-punct-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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