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title: Kinshasa and Brazzaville face each other across the Congo River as t… — Africa: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Kinshasa and Brazzaville face each other across the Congo River as the capitals of two different countries. Who acts: Kinshasa. A sentence of the lesson «Africa: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 19

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Kinshasa and Brazzaville face each other across the Congo River as the capitals of two different countries.

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**Who acts:** Kinshasa · **What happens:** face · **To what, where:** other, Congo River

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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 (Kinshasa), 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:19
# text = Kinshasa and Brazzaville face each other across the Congo River as the capitals of two different countries.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Kinshasa	Kinshasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	Brazzaville	Brazzaville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	other	other	PRON	NN	_	4	obj	_	_
7	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **face** | present | Kinshasa and Brazzaville | other |  | the Congo River |  | as the capitals of two different countries | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent other=Destination |

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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:19`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. **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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