Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 16

Bolivia's official capital is Sucre, but its government sits in La Paz at about 3,600 metres, the highest seat of government in the world, where the air is thin, with less oxygen, so newcomers get short of breath, while Quito in Ecuador, at about 2,850 metres, is the highest official capital.

Who acts: official capital, government, air, newcomers · What happens: be, sit, get · To what, where: Sucre, La, highest official capital

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 (official capital, government, air, newcomers), 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	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 capital	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Bolivia	case
3	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 capital	amod
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Sucre	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Sucre	cop
6	Sucre	Sucre	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sits	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sits	cc
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 government	nmod:poss
10	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	nsubj
11	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Sucre	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 La	case
13	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sits	obl
14	Paz	Paz	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 La	flat
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 metres	case
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 3,600	advmod
17	3,600	3,600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 metres	nummod
18	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sits	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seat	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 seat	det
21	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 seat	amod
22	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 capital	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 government	case
24	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seat	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seat	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thin	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 thin	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 air	det
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thin	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 thin	cop
33	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 capital	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 oxygen	punct
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 oxygen	case
36	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 oxygen	amod
37	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thin	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 get	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	41 get	advmod
40	newcomers	newcomer	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 get	nsubj
41	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 thin	advcl
42	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 get	xcomp
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 breath	case
44	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 short	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Quito	punct
46	while	while	SCONJ	_	47 Quito	mark
47	Quito	Quito	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 get	parataxis
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 Ecuador	case
49	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Quito	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 metres	punct
51	at	at	ADP	_	54 metres	case
52	about	about	ADV	_	53 2,850	advmod
53	2,850	2,850	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	54 metres	nummod
54	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 Quito	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 capital	punct
56	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 capital	cop
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 capital	det
58	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	60 capital	amod
59	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 capital	amod
60	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Sucre	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	60 capital	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bolivia's official capital and the highest seat of government in the world	Sucre and the highest official capital			tree rules
2	sit	present	capital's government		La	at 3,600 metres	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in la=Location
3	is	present	the air			with less oxygen; thin property	tree rules
4	get	present	newcomers			short property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	Bolivia's official capital and the highest seat of government in the world not said here	the highest official capital			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:16.

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): R7-rel-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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