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title: Nepal's capital is Kathmandu and Bhutan's is Thimphu, while Sri Lank… — East, South and South-East Asia: countries and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nepal's capital is Kathmandu and Bhutan's is Thimphu, while Sri Lanka's official capital is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, next to its largest city, Colombo. Who acts: capital, official capital. A sentence of the lesson «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» of the geography course of
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# East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals, sentence 16

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Nepal's capital is Kathmandu and Bhutan's is Thimphu, while Sri Lanka's official capital is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, next to its largest city, Colombo.

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**Who acts:** capital, official capital · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Kathmandu, Thimphu, Sri

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This is a sentence of the lesson «East, South and South-East Asia: 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 (capital, official capital), 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:16
# text = Nepal's capital is Kathmandu and Bhutan's is Thimphu, while Sri Lanka's official capital is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, next to its largest city, Colombo.
# 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): no change
1	Nepal	Nepal	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	Kathmandu	Kathmandu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	Bhutan	Bhutan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Thimphu	Thimphu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
16	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	Jayawardenepura	Jayawardenepura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Kotte	Kotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	next	next	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Colombo	Colombo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nepal's capital | Kathmandu and Bhutan's Thimphu and Sri |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Nepal's capital *not said here* | Bhutan's Thimphu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Sri's official capital | Sri |  |  |  | to capital's largest city | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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