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title: The Atlantic Ocean lies between Europe and Africa on one side and No… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: The Atlantic Ocean lies between Europe and Africa on one side and North and South America on the other. Who acts: Atlantic Ocean. 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 every clause.
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# Continents and oceans, sentence 18

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The Atlantic Ocean lies between Europe and Africa on one side and North and South America on the other.

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**Who acts:** Atlantic Ocean · **What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** one side

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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 (Atlantic Ocean), 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:18
# text = The Atlantic Ocean lies between Europe and Africa on one side and North and South America on the other.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **lie** | present | the Atlantic Ocean |  |  | one side |  | between Europe and Africa and North and South | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between europe=Location |

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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:18`.

**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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