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title: Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is the largest lake in the UK by are… — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics
description: Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is the largest lake in the UK by area, while Loch Ness in Scotland, long, narrow and over 200 metres deep, holds more water than all the lakes of England and Wales together. Who acts: Lough, Loch Ness. A sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom
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# The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 13

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Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is the largest lake in the UK by area, while Loch Ness in Scotland, long, narrow and over 200 metres deep, holds more water than all the lakes of England and Wales together.

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**Who acts:** Lough, Loch Ness · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** largest lake, UK, more water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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 (Lough, Loch Ness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:13
# text = Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is the largest lake in the UK by area, while Loch Ness in Scotland, long, narrow and over 200 metres deep, holds more water than all the lakes of England and Wales together.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lough	Lough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Neagh	Neagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
17	Loch	Loch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Ness	ness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	over	over	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
29	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	together	together	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31: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 | Lough in Northern Ireland | the largest lake |  | the UK |  | by area | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present | Loch Ness in Scotland | more water |  |  |  | than all lakes of England and Wales; deep *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:13`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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