--- title: Continents and oceans — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Continents and oceans», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Most of the Earth's surface is covered by water: about seven tenths is ocean and only about three tenths is land. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Continents and oceans # Continents and oceans Lesson 42 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/42-continents-and-oceans/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/0/) — Most of the Earth's surface is covered by water: about seven tenths is ocean and only about three tenths is land. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/1/) — The great pieces of land are called continents. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/2/) — There are seven: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe and Australia. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/3/) — The great bodies of salt water are the oceans: the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern and the Arctic. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/4/) — In fact they all join into one world ocean. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/5/) — Asia is the largest continent and Australia the smallest; the Pacific is the largest and deepest ocean, so big that all the land on Earth would fit into it. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/7/) — Europe and Asia are joined by land, and the Ural Mountains are usually taken as the border between them. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/8/) — About seven tenths of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/9/) — There are seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe and Australia. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/10/) — Asia is the largest continent and has the most people. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/12/) — Antarctica lies around the South Pole, is covered by thick ice and has no towns where people live all year. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/13/) — There are five oceans: the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern and the Arctic. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/14/) — The Pacific Ocean is the largest and the deepest ocean. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/15/) — The Arctic Ocean is the smallest ocean and lies around the North Pole. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/16/) — All the oceans are joined together, so a ship can sail from one to another. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/17/) — The United States and Canada are in North America, and the United Kingdom is in Europe. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/18/) — The Atlantic Ocean lies between Europe and Africa on one side and North and South America on the other. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/19/) — France, with its capital Paris, is in Europe; China is in Asia. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/42-continents-and-oceans/20/) — Europe and Asia are joined by land; the Ural Mountains are often taken as the border between them. - ← previous: [Maps, plans and the compass](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/41-maps-and-compass/) - next →: [Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/43-landforms/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)