Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 9

Australia's capital is Canberra, built as a compromise between rival cities Sydney and Melbourne, and about 27 million people live in the country, mostly near the coast in the south-east.

Who acts: million people · What happens: be, build, live · To what, where: Canberra, capital, country

This is a sentence of the lesson «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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 (million people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 capital	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Australia	case
3	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Canberra	cop
5	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 capital	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 capital	acl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 compromise	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 compromise	det
10	compromise	compromise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obl
11	between	between	ADP	_	13 cities	case
12	rival	rival	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cities	amod
13	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 compromise	nmod
14	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cities	appos
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Melbourne	cc
16	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Sydney	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 live	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 live	cc
19	about	about	ADV	_	21 million	advmod
20	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 million	compound
21	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 people	nummod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 live	nsubj
23	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 capital	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 country	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 country	det
26	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 live	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 coast	punct
28	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	31 coast	advmod
29	near	near	ADP	_	31 coast	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 coast	det
31	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 compromise	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 east	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 east	det
34	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 east	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 south	punct
36	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 coast	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 capital	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Canberra			tree rules
2	build	participle		Australia's capital not said here		as a compromise between rival cities and the coast in the south east	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	live	present	million people		the country		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=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, 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:geography:010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson:9.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

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