Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 1
Why do Brazilians speak Portuguese while their neighbours speak Spanish?
Who acts: Brazilians, neighbours · What happens: speak · To what, where: Portuguese, Spanish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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 (Brazilians, neighbours), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 speak | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | Brazilians | brazilian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Portuguese | Portuguese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speak | obj |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 speak | mark |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 speak | nsubj |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | advcl |
| 10 | Spanish | Spanish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 speak | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present · do-support | Brazilians | Portuguese | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | Brazilians's neighbours | Spanish | 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:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:1.
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 ×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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