Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 20
More than 2,000 languages are spoken in Africa, and Swahili is a shared language for well over 100 million people in East Africa.
Who acts: Swahili · What happens: speak, share, be · To what, where: 2,000 languages, Africa, shared language · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Swahili), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 2,000 | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 languages | nummod |
| 4 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoken | aux:pass |
| 6 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Africa | case |
| 8 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spoken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 language | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 language | cc |
| 11 | Swahili | Swahili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 language | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 language | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 language | det |
| 14 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 language | amod |
| 15 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoken | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 million | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 million | case |
| 19 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 million | compound |
| 20 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 people | nummod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 language | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Africa | case |
| 23 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Africa | compound |
| 24 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 people | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoken | 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 | speak speech: other | present · passive | 2,000 languages | Africa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Swahili | a shared language | for million people in East Africa | 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:20.
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): 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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