Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground, sentence 8

The capital of Australia is Canberra, built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne (a deal where each side gives a bit, because both cities wanted to be the capital).

Who acts: capital, side, cities · What happens: be, build, give, want · To what, where: Canberra, bit, capital

This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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 (capital, side, cities), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 capital	det
2	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Canberra	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 capital	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Canberra	cop
6	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 built	punct
8	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Canberra	acl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 compromise	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 compromise	det
11	compromise	compromise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 built	obl
12	between	between	ADP	_	13 Sydney	case
13	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 compromise	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Melbourne	cc
15	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Sydney	conj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 deal	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 deal	det
18	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Sydney	appos
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 gives	advmod
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 side	det
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gives	nsubj
22	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 deal	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gives	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wanted	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 wanted	mark
27	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	28 cities	det
28	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wanted	nsubj
29	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gives	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	33 capital	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 capital	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 capital	det
33	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wanted	xcomp
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 deal	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Canberra	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the capital of Australia	Canberra		tree rules
2	build	participle		Canberra not said here	as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	give	present	each side	a bit		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
4	want	past	both cities			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	both cities not said here	the 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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:8.

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): R6-punct-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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