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title: South Korea's capital is Seoul and North Korea's is Pyongyang; Korea… — East, South and South-East Asia: countries and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: South Korea's capital is Seoul and North Korea's is Pyongyang; Korea has been divided since 1945, and the Korean War of 1950 to 1953 ended only in an armistice, not a peace treaty. Who acts: capital, Korean War. A sentence of the lesson «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals» of th
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# East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals, sentence 8

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South Korea's capital is Seoul and North Korea's is Pyongyang; Korea has been divided since 1945, and the Korean War of 1950 to 1953 ended only in an armistice, not a peace treaty.

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**Who acts:** capital, Korean War · **What happens:** be, divide, end · **To what, where:** Seoul, Pyongyang, Korea, armistice

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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, Korean War), 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:8
# text = South Korea's capital is Seoul and North Korea's is Pyongyang; Korea has been divided since 1945, and the Korean War of 1950 to 1953 ended only in an armistice, not a peace treaty.
# 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	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	Pyongyang	Pyongyang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
18	since	since	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1950	1950	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	_
29	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	armistice	armistice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | South Korea's capital | Seoul and North Korea's Pyongyang |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | South Korea's capital *not said here* | North Korea's Pyongyang |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **divide** | present · perfect · passive |  | Korea |  |  | since 1945 |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **end** | past | the Korean War of 1950 to 1953 |  |  | a armistice and a peace treaty |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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: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): 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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