Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 11
Cairo (the capital of Egypt), Lagos and Kinshasa are Africa's largest cities, each with well over 15 million people in their wider urban areas.
Who acts: Cairo · What happens: be · To what, where: largest cities
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 (Cairo), 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 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cities | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 capital | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 capital | det |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cairo | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Egypt | case |
| 6 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 capital | nmod |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 capital | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Lagos | punct |
| 9 | Lagos | Lagos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cairo | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Kinshasa | cc |
| 11 | Kinshasa | Kinshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cairo | conj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cities | cop |
| 13 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cities | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Africa | case |
| 15 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 cities | amod |
| 16 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 each | punct |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 cities | appos |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 million | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 million | case |
| 22 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 million | compound |
| 23 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 people | nummod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 each | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 areas | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 areas | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 areas | amod |
| 28 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 areas | amod |
| 29 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 people | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cities | 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 | Cairo and Lagos and Kinshasa | Africa's largest cities | 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:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:11.
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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