East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals, sentence 16
Nepal's capital is Kathmandu and Bhutan's is Thimphu, while Sri Lanka's official capital is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, next to its largest city, Colombo.
Who acts: capital, official capital · What happens: be · To what, where: Kathmandu, Thimphu, Sri
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, official capital), 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 | Nepal | Nepal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 capital | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Nepal | case |
| 3 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Kathmandu | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Kathmandu | cop |
| 5 | Kathmandu | Kathmandu | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Thimphu | cc |
| 7 | Bhutan | Bhutan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Thimphu | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Bhutan | case |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Thimphu | cop |
| 10 | Thimphu | Thimphu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kathmandu | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sri | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 Sri | mark |
| 13 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 capital | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sri | flat |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Sri | case |
| 16 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 capital | amod |
| 17 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Sri | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Sri | cop |
| 19 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kathmandu | conj |
| 20 | Jayawardenepura | Jayawardenepura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sri | flat |
| 21 | Kotte | Kotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sri | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 city | punct |
| 23 | next | next | ADV | _ | 27 city | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 city | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 city | nmod:poss |
| 26 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 city | amod |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Sri | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Colombo | punct |
| 29 | Colombo | Colombo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 city | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kathmandu | punct |
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 | Nepal's capital | Kathmandu and Bhutan's Thimphu and Sri | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Nepal's capital not said here | Bhutan's Thimphu | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Sri's official capital | Sri | to capital's largest city | tree rules |
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:16.
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): no change. 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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