--- title: Turkey's capital is Ankara, chosen by the new republic in 1923 becau… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics description: Turkey's capital is Ankara, chosen by the new republic in 1923 because it lies in the middle of the country, away from the old sultans' court, but its largest city is Istanbul, which spans Europe and Asia on both sides of the Bosporus. Who acts: capital, largest city, Istanbul. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (capital, largest city, Istanbul), 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:9 # text = Turkey's capital is Ankara, chosen by the new republic in 1923 because it lies in the middle of the country, away from the old sultans' court, but its largest city is Istanbul, which spans Europe and Asia on both sides of the Bosporus. # 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): no change 1 Turkey Turkey 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 Ankara Ankara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 republic republic NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 1923 1923 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 sultans sultan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 ' 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 35 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 Istanbul Istanbul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 spans span VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 46 det _ _ 46 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 Bosporus bosporus NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | Turkey's capital | Ankara but Istanbul | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **choose** | participle | | Ankara but Istanbul *not said here* | | 1923 | | by the new republic; away *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lie** | present | capital | | | the middle of the country | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | capital's largest city | Istanbul | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **span** | present | Istanbul | Europe and Asia | | both sides of the Bosporus | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme europe=Co-Theme | 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:9`. **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/). - ← previous: [The Middle East and Central Asia, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/8/) - next →: [The Middle East and Central Asia, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/)