--- title: The islands are small but never far from the sea: nowhere in the UK… — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: The islands are small but never far from the sea: nowhere in the UK is more than about 113 km from tidal water, which helped make Britain a sea-trading power. Who acts: islands, 113 km. 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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 (islands, 113 km), 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:4 # text = The islands are small but never far from the sea: nowhere in the UK is more than about 113 km from tidal water, which helped make Britain a sea-trading power. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 12 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 18 than than ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 113 113 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 tidal tidal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 29 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 trading trading NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the islands | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the islands *not said here* | | | | | than 113 km from tidal water; more, nowhere *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **help** | past | 113 km from tidal water | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | 113 km from tidal water *not said here* | Britain | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset britain=Product | 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:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:4`. **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, R7-rel-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. 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