Europe: countries and capitals, sentence 4

Some countries are odd: the Netherlands' capital is Amsterdam but its government sits in The Hague, and Switzerland has no capital by law at all.

Who acts: countries, capital, government, Switzerland · What happens: be, sit, have · To what, where: Amsterdam, Hague, capital, all

This is a sentence of the lesson «Europe: 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 (countries, capital, government, Switzerland), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 countries	det
2	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 odd	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 odd	cop
4	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Amsterdam	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Netherlands	det
7	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 capital	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 Netherlands	case
9	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Amsterdam	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Amsterdam	cop
11	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 odd	parataxis
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 sits	cc
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 government	nmod:poss
14	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sits	nsubj
15	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Amsterdam	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 Hague	case
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Hague	det
18	Hague	Hague	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sits	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 has	cc
21	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Amsterdam	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 capital	det
24	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 law	case
26	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 capital	nmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 capital	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 odd	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	some countries			odd property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the Netherlands's capital	Amsterdam			tree rules
3	sit	present	Netherlands's government		the Hague		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hague=Location
4	have	present	Switzerland	no capital	all	by law	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient

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:007-europe-countries-and-capitals.lesson:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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