--- title: A lake is water closed in by land, and the Caspian is so huge and sa… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics description: A lake is water closed in by land, and the Caspian is so huge and salty that people call it a sea, while Baikal is so deep it holds more water than all five Great Lakes. Who acts: lake, Caspian, people, Baikal. 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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 (lake, Caspian, people, Baikal), 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:3 # text = A lake is water closed in by land, and the Caspian is so huge and salty that people call it a sea, while Baikal is so deep it holds more water than all five Great Lakes. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 in in ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Caspian Caspian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 Baikal Baikal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 than than ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 36 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 37 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Lakes lake PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 31 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a lake | water | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **close in** | participle | | water *not said here* | | | | by land | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | the Caspian | | | | | huge *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | the Caspian *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | present | people | Caspian | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | present | Baikal | | | | | deep *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **hold** | present | sea | more water | | | | than all five Great Lakes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:3`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/2/) - next →: [Islands, seas and lakes, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/)