--- title: Australia is a whole continent and a country, with Canberra as its c… — The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Australia, most, most Australians. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Australia, most, most Australians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.lesson:3 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.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 ×1 1 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 Canberra Canberra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 16 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Outback Outback PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 Australians australian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 33 near near ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 coasts coast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nmod 38 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 40 case _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 38 fixed _ _ 40 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 Melbourne Melbourne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Australia | a whole continent and a country | | | | with country's capital | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | most of capital's middle | hot dry desert | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | present | most Australians | | | the coasts | | in cities such Sydney and Melbourne | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | 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. **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:045-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz.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): 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/). - ← previous: [The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/1/) - next →: [The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/)