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title: Most of the Earth's surface is covered by water: about seven tenths… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the Earth's surface is covered by water: about seven tenths is ocean and only about three tenths is land. Who acts: water, seven tenths, three tenths. A sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Continents and oceans, sentence 0

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Most of the Earth's surface is covered by water: about seven tenths is ocean and only about three tenths is land.

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**Who acts:** water, seven tenths, three tenths · **What happens:** cover, be · **To what, where:** Most, ocean, land

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» of the world 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 (water, seven tenths, three tenths), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:042-continents-and-oceans.lesson:0
# text = Most of the Earth's surface is covered by water: about seven tenths is ocean and only about three tenths is land.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 042-continents-and-oceans.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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	tenths	tenth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	tenths	tenth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present · passive | water | Most of the Earth's surface |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present | seven tenths | ocean and land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | three tenths | land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:world:042-continents-and-oceans.lesson:0`.

**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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