East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals, sentence 5
China's capital is Beijing, and China has about 1.4 billion people, the second most of any country, since India overtook it around 2023.
Who acts: capital, China, India · What happens: be, have, overtake · To what, where: Beijing, billion people, capital, 2023
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, China, India), 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 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 capital | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 China | case |
| 3 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Beijing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Beijing | cop |
| 5 | Beijing | Beijing | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 has | cc |
| 8 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Beijing | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 billion | advmod |
| 11 | 1.4 | 1.4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 billion | compound |
| 12 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 people | nummod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 has | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 second | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 most | det |
| 16 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 most | amod |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 people | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 most | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 overtook | punct |
| 22 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 24 overtook | mark |
| 23 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 overtook | nsubj |
| 24 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 has | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 overtook | obj |
| 26 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 2023 | case |
| 27 | 2023 | 2023 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 overtook | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beijing | 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 | China's capital | Beijing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | China | billion people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 3 | overtake | past | India | capital | 2023 | 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:5.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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