Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 10
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, with about 230 million people, and its capital moved from Lagos to the planned city of Abuja in 1991.
Who acts: Nigeria, capital · What happens: be, move, plan · To what, where: populous country, Lagos
This is a sentence of the lesson «Africa: 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 (Nigeria, 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 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 country | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 country | cop |
| 3 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 country | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Africa | case |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 populous | advmod |
| 6 | populous | populous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 people | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 million | advmod |
| 11 | 230 | 230 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 million | compound |
| 12 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 people | nummod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 country | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 moved | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 moved | cc |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 capital | nmod:poss |
| 17 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moved | nsubj |
| 18 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 country | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Lagos | case |
| 20 | Lagos | Lagos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 moved | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 city | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 23 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 city | amod |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moved | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Abuja | case |
| 26 | Abuja | Abuja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 city | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 1991 | case |
| 28 | 1991 | 1991 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 moved | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 country | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nigeria | Africa's populous country | with million people | tree rules | |||
| 2 | move | past | most's capital | Lagos | to the planned city of Abuja; in 1991 | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from lagos=Source to city=Trajectory in 1991=Destination | |||
| 3 | plan | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:10.
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. 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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