--- title: The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The United Kingdom is made of four nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, on islands off the north-west --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/) [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/) / The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and… # The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand Lesson 45 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/0/) — The United Kingdom is made of four nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, on islands off the north-west of Europe; its capital is London on the River Thames, and its mild, rainy weather comes from the ocean all around it. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/1/) — Ireland is the green island to the west of Great Britain, with Dublin as its capital; its frequent rain keeps the grass green all year. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/3/) — Australia is a whole continent and a country, with Canberra as its capital; most of its middle, the Outback, is hot dry desert, so most Australians live near the coasts in cities such as Sydney and Melbourne. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/5/) — Australia and New Zealand are in the Southern Hemisphere, so their seasons are upside down: when the north half of the Earth is tilted towards the Sun in July, the south half is tilted away, so July is winter in Melbourne and Christmas comes in the summer, often at the beach. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/6/) — Because Australia and New Zealand were cut off by the sea for millions of years, they have animals found nowhere else: kangaroos and koalas, which carry their babies in pouches, the egg-laying platypus, and in New Zealand the kiwi, a bird that cannot fly. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/8/) — London, on the River Thames, is the capital of the United Kingdom. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/9/) — Dublin is the capital of Ireland. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/10/) — Ottawa is the capital of Canada, and Canada is the second-largest country in the world. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/11/) — Canberra is the capital of Australia, though Sydney is its largest city. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/12/) — Wellington is the capital of New Zealand. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/13/) — Most of the middle of Australia, called the Outback, is hot and dry. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/15/) — In the Southern Hemisphere, December, January and February are summer months. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/16/) — Kangaroos and koalas are marsupials: their babies grow in a pouch. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/17/) — The platypus of Australia is a mammal that lays eggs. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/18/) — The kiwi is a flightless bird of New Zealand. - ← previous: [The United States and its states](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/) - next →: [Countries, peoples and languages of the world](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)