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title: South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria for the government, Cape T… — Africa: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria for the government, Cape Town for parliament and Bloemfontein for the highest courts. Who acts: South Africa. A sentence of the lesson «Africa: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 12

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South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria for the government, Cape Town for parliament and Bloemfontein for the highest courts.

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**Who acts:** South Africa · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** three capitals

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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 (South Africa), 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:12
# text = South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria for the government, Cape Town for parliament and Bloemfontein for the highest courts.
# 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): no change
1	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Pretoria	Pretoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Bloemfontein	Bloemfontein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | South Africa | three capitals |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient |

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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:12`.

**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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