Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands, sentence 7
San Marino, inside Italy, claims to be the oldest surviving republic in the world, traditionally founded in 301; it sits on a mountain, stayed small and neutral, and was mostly left alone when Italy was united.
Who acts: San, world, Italy · What happens: claim, survive, be, found, sit, stay · To what, where: oldest surviving republic, world, 301, mountain
This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 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 (San, world, Italy), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 claims | nsubj |
| 2 | Marino | Marino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Italy | punct |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 Italy | case |
| 5 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 7 | claims | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 republic | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 republic | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 republic | det |
| 11 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 republic | amod |
| 12 | surviving | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 republic | amod |
| 13 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 claims | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 republic | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 founded | punct |
| 18 | traditionally | traditionally | ADV | _ | 19 founded | advmod |
| 19 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 republic | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 301 | case |
| 21 | 301 | 301 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 founded | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sits | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sits | nsubj |
| 24 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 claims | parataxis |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 mountain | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mountain | det |
| 27 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sits | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stayed | punct |
| 29 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sits | conj |
| 30 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 stayed | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 neutral | cc |
| 32 | neutral | neutral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 small | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 left | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 left | cc |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 left | aux:pass |
| 36 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 37 left | advmod |
| 37 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 claims | conj |
| 38 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 37 left | advmod |
| 39 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 42 united | mark |
| 40 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 united | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 united | cop |
| 42 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 left | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 claims | 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 | claim speech: other | present | San inside Italy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | survive | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | San inside Italy not said here | the oldest surviving republic | the world | tree rules | |||
| 4 | found | participle | the oldest surviving republic not said here | 301 | traditionally property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | sit | present | world | a mountain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mountain=Location | ||||
| 6 | stay | past | world not said here | small property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | leave | past · passive | San inside Italy not said here | alone, mostly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 8 | is | past | Italy | united property | 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:039-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands.lesson:7.
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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