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title: Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, with about 230 million pe… — Africa: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, with about 230 million people, and its capital moved from Lagos to the planned city of Abuja in 1991. Who acts: Nigeria, capital. A sentence of the lesson «Africa: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 10

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Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, with about 230 million people, and its capital moved from Lagos to the planned city of Abuja in 1991.

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**Who acts:** Nigeria, capital · **What happens:** be, move, plan · **To what, where:** populous country, Lagos

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Africa: 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 (Nigeria, capital), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:10
# text = Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, with about 230 million people, and its capital moved from Lagos to the planned city of Abuja in 1991.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 013-africa-countries-and-capitals.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	populous	populous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	230	230	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Lagos	Lagos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Abuja	Abuja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nigeria | Africa's populous country |  |  |  | with million people | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | past | most's capital |  |  | Lagos |  | to the planned city of Abuja; in 1991 | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme from lagos=Source to city=Trajectory in 1991=Destination |
| 3 | **plan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:10`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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