East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals, sentence 14

Malaysia's capital is Kuala Lumpur, though much of its government works in Putrajaya, and Singapore is a tiny island city-state that became independent in 1965.

Who acts: capital, much, Singapore, tiny island city state · What happens: be, work, become · To what, where: Kuala, tiny island city state, 1965

This is a sentence of the lesson «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» 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 (capital, much, Singapore, tiny island city state), 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	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 capital	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Malaysia	case
3	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Kuala	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Kuala	cop
5	Kuala	Kuala	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	Lumpur	Lumpur	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Kuala	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 works	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 works	mark
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 works	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 government	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 government	nmod:poss
12	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 much	nmod
13	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Kuala	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Putrajaya	case
15	Putrajaya	Putrajaya	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 works	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 state	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 state	cc
18	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 state	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 state	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 state	det
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 state	amod
22	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 state	compound
23	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 state	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 city	punct
25	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Kuala	conj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 became	nsubj
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 state	acl:relcl
28	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 1965	case
30	1965	1965	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 became	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Kuala	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Malaysia's capital	Kuala and a tiny island city state		tree rules
2	work	present	much of capital's government		in Putrajaya	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in putrajaya=Theme
3	is a	present	Singapore	a tiny island city state		tree rules
4	become	past	a tiny island city state		in 1965 result; independent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1965=Result

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:011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.lesson:14.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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.

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