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title: A sea is a smaller part of the ocean, often partly enclosed by land,… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics
description: A sea is a smaller part of the ocean, often partly enclosed by land, such as the Mediterranean, the Baltic or the North Sea. Who acts: sea. 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 clause.
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# Islands, seas and lakes, sentence 9

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A sea is a smaller part of the ocean, often partly enclosed by land, such as the Mediterranean, the Baltic or the North Sea.

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**Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** be, enclose · **To what, where:** smaller part

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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 (sea), 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:9
# text = A sea is a smaller part of the ocean, often partly enclosed by land, such as the Mediterranean, the Baltic or the North Sea.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	enclosed	enclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | a sea | a smaller part |  |  |  | of the ocean | tree rules |
| 2 | **enclose** | participle |  | a smaller part *not said here* |  |  |  | by land such the Mediterranean and the Baltic or the North Sea; often, partly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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