--- title: Countries are very different in size: Russia is the largest country… — Countries, peoples and languages of the world · tree and pragmatics description: Countries are very different in size: Russia is the largest country by area and Canada the second, while Vatican City, inside the city of Rome, is so small that you can walk across it in a quarter of an hour. Who acts: Countries, Russia, Vatican City, you. A sentence of the lesson «Countries, people --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/1/) [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/) / [Countries, peoples and languages of th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/) / 1 # Countries, peoples and languages of the world, sentence 1 Countries are very different in size: Russia is the largest country by area and Canada the second, while Vatican City, inside the city of Rome, is so small that you can walk across it in a quarter of an hour. **Who acts:** Countries, Russia, Vatican City, you · **What happens:** be, walk · **To what, where:** size, largest country, anthem This is a sentence of the lesson «Countries, peoples and languages of the world» 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 (Countries, Russia, Vatican City, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:046-countries-peoples-languages.lesson:1 # text = Countries are very different in size: Russia is the largest country by area and Canada the second, while Vatican City, inside the city of Rome, is so small that you can walk across it in a quarter of an hour. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 046-countries-peoples-languages.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 acl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 21 Vatican Vatican PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 inside inside ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 37 across across ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | Countries | | | size and the largest country | | different *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Russia | the largest country | | | | by area and Canada | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | Vatican City inside the city of Rome | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** | can | you | | | anthem | | in a quarter of a hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Trajectory | 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:046-countries-peoples-languages.lesson:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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: [Countries, peoples and languages of th…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/0/) - next →: [Countries, peoples and languages of th…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/)