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title: Russia, with its capital Moscow, is the largest country in Europe an… — Europe: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Russia, with its capital Moscow, is the largest country in Europe and the world, and although only about a quarter of its land is in Europe, most of its people live there. Who acts: Russia, quarter, most. A sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's pri
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# Europe: countries and capitals, sentence 6

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Russia, with its capital Moscow, is the largest country in Europe and the world, and although only about a quarter of its land is in Europe, most of its people live there.

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**Who acts:** Russia, quarter, most · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** largest country, Europe

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» 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 (Russia, quarter, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:007-europe-countries-and-capitals.lesson:6
# text = Russia, with its capital Moscow, is the largest country in Europe and the world, and although only about a quarter of its land is in Europe, most of its people live there.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 007-europe-countries-and-capitals.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 ×2
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod:poss
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
19	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	advcl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | Russia | the largest country |  | Europe and the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a quarter of quarter's land |  |  | Europe |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | most of quarter's people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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:007-europe-countries-and-capitals.lesson:6`.

**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 ×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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