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title: Greenland is the world's largest island, with about 2.2 million squa… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Greenland is the world's largest island, with about 2.2 million square kilometres, and Australia is not counted because it is called a continent. Who acts: Greenland. A sentence of the lesson «Islands, seas and lakes» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Islands, seas and lakes, sentence 5

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Greenland is the world's largest island, with about 2.2 million square kilometres, and Australia is not counted because it is called a continent.

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**Who acts:** Greenland · **What happens:** be, not count, call · **To what, where:** largest island, Australia, sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Greenland), 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:5
# text = Greenland is the world's largest island, with about 2.2 million square kilometres, and Australia is not counted because it is called a continent.
# 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): no change
1	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	2.2	2.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | Greenland | the world's largest island |  |  |  | with million square kilometres | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **count** | present · passive |  | Australia |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | sea |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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