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title: Asia is the largest continent and Australia the smallest; the Pacifi… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Asia, Pacific, land. A sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Continents and oceans, sentence 5

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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.

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**Who acts:** Asia, Pacific, land · **What happens:** be, fit · **To what, where:** largest continent, fact

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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 (Asia, Pacific, land), 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:5
# text = 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.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
7	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
17	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod
18	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## 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 | Asia | the largest continent and Australia  the smallest and ocean |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Pacific |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the Pacific *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fit** | would | all land on Earth |  |  | fact |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into it=Destination |

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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:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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