Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 19

Kinshasa and Brazzaville face each other across the Congo River as the capitals of two different countries.

Who acts: Kinshasa · What happens: face · To what, where: other, Congo River

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 (Kinshasa), 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	Kinshasa	Kinshasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 face	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Brazzaville	cc
3	Brazzaville	Brazzaville	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kinshasa	conj
4	face	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 other	det
6	other	other	PRON	_	4 face	obj
7	across	across	ADP	_	10 River	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 River	det
9	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 River	compound
10	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 face	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 capitals	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 capitals	det
13	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 face	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 countries	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 countries	nummod
16	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 countries	amod
17	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 capitals	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 face	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face	present	Kinshasa and Brazzaville	other		the Congo River		as the capitals of two different countries	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent other=Destination

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:19.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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