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description: The Rhinoceros lives by the Red Sea, the long, narrow sea between Africa and Arabia; Socotra, named in the story's poem, is an island of Yemen, north of the Equator, near Cape Guardafui, the very tip of the Horn of Africa, and it is famous for its strange umbrella-shaped dragon's blood trees. Who ac
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# The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey, sentence 7

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The Rhinoceros lives by the Red Sea, the long, narrow sea between Africa and Arabia; Socotra, named in the story's poem, is an island of Yemen, north of the Equator, near Cape Guardafui, the very tip of the Horn of Africa, and it is famous for its strange umbrella-shaped dragon's blood trees.

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**Who acts:** Rhinoceros, Socotra · **What happens:** live, name, be, shape · **To what, where:** Socotra, poem, island

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» 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 (Rhinoceros, Socotra), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:7
# text = The Rhinoceros lives by the Red Sea, the long, narrow sea between Africa and Arabia; Socotra, named in the story's poem, is an island of Yemen, north of the Equator, near Cape Guardafui, the very tip of the Horn of Africa, and it is famous for its strange umbrella-shaped dragon's blood trees.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rhinoceros	rhinoceros	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Red	Red	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Socotra	Socotra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	north	north	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	near	near	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
41	Guardafui	Guardafui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	very	very	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Horn	horn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=45:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
55	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
57	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
58	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
59	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
60	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	59	punct	_	_
61	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	62	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=62:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
62	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nmod:poss	_	_
63	's	's	PART	POS	_	62	case	_	_
64	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	_
65	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | the Rhinoceros |  |  |  |  | by the Red Sea | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | Socotra *not said here* |  | the story's poem |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Socotra | a island and the Equator and Cape and the tip of the Horn of Africa |  |  |  | of Yemen | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | Rhinoceros |  |  |  |  | for Equator's blood trees; famous *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:7`.

**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): 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/).

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