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title: The great bodies of salt water are the oceans: the Pacific, the Atla… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: The great bodies of salt water are the oceans: the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern and the Arctic. Who acts: great bodies. 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 3

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The great bodies of salt water are the oceans: the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern and the Arctic.

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**Who acts:** great bodies · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** oceans

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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 (great bodies), 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:3
# text = The great bodies of salt water are the oceans: the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern and the Arctic.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	oceans	ocean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Southern	Southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | present | the great bodies of salt water | the oceans |  |  |  |  | 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:3`.

**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): no change. **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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