--- title: Sicily is the biggest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and Palermo i… — The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from… · tree and pragmatics description: Sicily is the biggest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and Palermo is its main city; Sardinia belongs to Italy and Corsica, just north of it, belongs to France. Who acts: Sicily, Palermo, Sardinia. 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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 (Sicily, Palermo, Sardinia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:12 # text = Sicily is the biggest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and Palermo is its main city; Sardinia belongs to Italy and Corsica, just north of it, belongs to France. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.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 Sicily Sicily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 Palermo Palermo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Sardinia Sardinia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 Corsica Corsica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 just just ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 north north ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 30 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Sicily | the biggest island and city's main city | | the Mediterranean Sea | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Palermo | city's main city | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **belong** | present | Sardinia | | Italy and Corsica | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **belong** | present | | | France | | | north *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:12`. **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. 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