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title: Japan's capital is Tokyo, and its four main islands are Honshu, Hokk… — East, South and South-East Asia: countries and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Japan's capital is Tokyo, and its four main islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku; the Tokyo area, with about 37 million people, is one of the largest cities on Earth. Who acts: capital, Tokyo area. A sentence of the lesson «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» of the 
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# East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals, sentence 7

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Japan's capital is Tokyo, and its four main islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku; the Tokyo area, with about 37 million people, is one of the largest cities on Earth.

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**Who acts:** capital, Tokyo area · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Tokyo, Honshu, one

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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, Tokyo area), 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:7
# text = Japan's capital is Tokyo, and its four main islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku; the Tokyo area, with about 37 million people, is one of the largest cities on Earth.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Japan	Japan	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	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Honshu	Honshu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Hokkaido	Hokkaido	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Kyushu	Kyushu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Shikoku	Shikoku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	37	37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	_
28	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	amod	_	_
36	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32: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 | Japan's capital | Tokyo and capital's four main islands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | Honshu and Hokkaido and Kyushu and Shikoku |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the Tokyo area with million people | one |  |  |  | of the largest cities on Earth | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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