--- title: Iraq's capital is Baghdad on the Tigris, and Mesopotamia (a Greek na… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics description: Iraq's capital is Baghdad on the Tigris, and Mesopotamia (a Greek name meaning «between the rivers»), the land between the Tigris and Euphrates, saw some of the first cities, such as Uruk, over 5,000 years ago. Who acts: capital, Greek name, Mesopotamia. A sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The Middle East and Central Asia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/) / 13 # The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 13 Iraq's capital is Baghdad on the Tigris, and Mesopotamia (a Greek name meaning «between the rivers»), the land between the Tigris and Euphrates, saw some of the first cities, such as Uruk, over 5,000 years ago. **Who acts:** capital, Greek name, Mesopotamia · **What happens:** be, mean, see · **To what, where:** Baghdad, Tigris, some This is a sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» 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, Greek name, Mesopotamia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:13 # text = Iraq's capital is Baghdad on the Tigris, and Mesopotamia (a Greek name meaning «between the rivers»), the land between the Tigris and Euphrates, saw some of the first cities, such as Uruk, over 5,000 years ago. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 012-middle-east-and-central-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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Iraq Iraq 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 Baghdad Baghdad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 parataxis _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Tigris Tigris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Mesopotamia Mesopotamia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Greek Greek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 between between ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 26 between between ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Tigris Tigris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 Euphrates Euphrates PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 32 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 32 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 37 amod _ _ 37 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 41 case _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 39 fixed _ _ 41 Uruk Uruk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 over over ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 5,000 5000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl:unmarked _ _ 46 ago ago ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Iraq's capital | Baghdad | | the Tigris | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | gerund | a Greek name *not said here* | | | | | between the rivers | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** | past | Mesopotamia | some | | | | ago *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus | 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:012-middle-east-and-central-asia.lesson:13`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-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: [The Middle East and Central Asia, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/12/) - next →: [The Middle East and Central Asia, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/)