Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 9
Brazil is the largest country in South America, with about 213 million people, and its capital is Brasília, a planned city built far inland that replaced Rio de Janeiro in 1960, to bring people and growth into the inland, away from the coast.
Who acts: Brazil, capital, planned city · What happens: be, plan, build, replace, bring · To what, where: largest country, South America, Brasília, planned city, Rio Janeiro, 1960
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 (Brazil, capital, planned city), 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 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 country | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 country | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 4 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 America | case |
| 7 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 America | compound |
| 8 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 country | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 million | advmod |
| 12 | 213 | 213 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 million | compound |
| 13 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 people | nummod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 country | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Brasília | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Brasília | cc |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 capital | nmod:poss |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Brasília | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Brasília | cop |
| 20 | Brasília | Brasília | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 people | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 city | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 23 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 city | amod |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Brasília | appos |
| 25 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 city | acl |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 inland | advmod |
| 27 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 25 built | advmod |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 replaced | nsubj |
| 29 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 city | acl:relcl |
| 30 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Janeiro | compound |
| 31 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Rio | flat |
| 32 | Janeiro | Janeiro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 replaced | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 1960 | case |
| 34 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 replaced | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bring | punct |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 bring | mark |
| 37 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 replaced | advcl |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 bring | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 growth | cc |
| 40 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 people | conj |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 inland | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 inland | det |
| 43 | inland | inland | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 bring | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 away | punct |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 bring | parataxis |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 coast | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 coast | det |
| 48 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 away | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 country | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Brazil | the largest country | South America | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | breath's capital | Brasília | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | plan | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | build | participle | a planned city not said here | inland property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | replace | past | a planned city | Rio Janeiro | 1960 | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme janeiro=Co-Theme | |||
| 6 | bring | to-infinitive | a planned city not said here | people and growth | the inland | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme into inland=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:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:9.
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 ×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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