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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (capital, much, Singapore, tiny island city state), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.lesson:14 # text = Malaysia's capital is Kuala Lumpur, though much of its government works in Putrajaya, and Singapore is a tiny island city-state that became independent in 1965. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.lesson # annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Malaysia Malaysia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 Kuala Kuala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 Lumpur Lumpur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 though though SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Putrajaya Putrajaya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 18 Singapore Singapore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 21 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod 22 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 23 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 independent independent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1965 1965 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is a** | present | Malaysia's capital | Kuala and a tiny island city state | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | present | much of capital's government | | | | | in Putrajaya | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in putrajaya=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | Singapore | a tiny island city state | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **become** | past | a tiny island city state | | | | | in 1965 *result*; independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1965=Result | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:011-east-south-and-south-east-asia.lesson:14`. **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, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [East, South and South-East Asia: count…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/13/) - next →: [East, South and South-East Asia: count…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/)