--- title: Syria's capital is Damascus, one of the oldest cities in the world t… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics description: Syria's capital is Damascus, one of the oldest cities in the world that has been lived in without a break, while Lebanon's capital is Beirut and Jordan's is Amman. Who acts: capital. A sentence of the lesson «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # The Middle East and Central Asia, sentence 16 Syria's capital is Damascus, one of the oldest cities in the world that has been lived in without a break, while Lebanon's capital is Beirut and Jordan's is Amman. **Who acts:** capital · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** Damascus, oldest cities, break, Beirut, Amman 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), 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:16 # text = Syria's capital is Damascus, one of the oldest cities in the world that has been lived in without a break, while Lebanon's capital is Beirut and Jordan's is Amman. # 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 ×1 1 Syria Syria 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 Damascus Damascus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 22 case _ _ 20 without without ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 Lebanon Lebanon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 Beirut Beirut PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 advcl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 Jordan Jordan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 Amman Amman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | Syria's capital | Damascus | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present · perfect · passive | | the oldest cities in the world | | a break | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | Lebanon's capital | Beirut and Jordan and Amman | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | Lebanon's capital *not said here* | Amman | | | | | tree rules | 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: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): R6-punct-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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/15/) - next →: [The Middle East and Central Asia, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/)