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title: Indonesia is the world's largest country made only of islands, with… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Indonesia is the world's largest country made only of islands, with more than 17,000 islands; many are tiny rocks that the tide covers and uncovers, so the exact count is hard. Who acts: Indonesia, many, tide, exact count. A sentence of the lesson «Islands, seas and lakes» of the geography course of
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# Islands, seas and lakes, sentence 8

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Indonesia is the world's largest country made only of islands, with more than 17,000 islands; many are tiny rocks that the tide covers and uncovers, so the exact count is hard.

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**Who acts:** Indonesia, many, tide, exact count · **What happens:** be, make, cover, uncover · **To what, where:** largest country, tiny rocks

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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 (Indonesia, many, tide, exact count), 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:8
# text = Indonesia is the world's largest country made only of islands, with more than 17,000 islands; many are tiny rocks that the tide covers and uncovers, so the exact count is hard.
# 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 ×4
1	Indonesia	Indonesia	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	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	17,000	17,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
25	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound
26	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	uncovers	uncover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
36	.	.	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 | Indonesia | the world's largest country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the world's largest country *not said here* |  |  |  | of islands; with 17,000 islands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **is a** | present | many | tiny rocks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** | present | the tide | tiny rocks |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Destination |
| 5 | **uncover** | present | the tide *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | the exact count |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | 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:8`.

**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 ×4. **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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