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title: Bolivia's official capital is Sucre, but its government sits in La P… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics
description: Bolivia's official capital is Sucre, but its government sits in La Paz at about 3,600 metres, the highest seat of government in the world, where the air is thin, with less oxygen, so newcomers get short of breath, while Quito in Ecuador, at about 2,850 metres, is the highest official capital. Who ac
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# Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 16

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Bolivia's official capital is Sucre, but its government sits in La Paz at about 3,600 metres, the highest seat of government in the world, where the air is thin, with less oxygen, so newcomers get short of breath, while Quito in Ecuador, at about 2,850 metres, is the highest official capital.

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**Who acts:** official capital, government, air, newcomers · **What happens:** be, sit, get · **To what, where:** Sucre, La, highest official capital

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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 (official capital, government, air, newcomers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:16
# text = Bolivia's official capital is Sucre, but its government sits in La Paz at about 3,600 metres, the highest seat of government in the world, where the air is thin, with less oxygen, so newcomers get short of breath, while Quito in Ecuador, at about 2,850 metres, is the highest official capital.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Sucre	Sucre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	Paz	Paz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	3,600	3,600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	newcomers	newcomer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
42	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
47	Quito	Quito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	parataxis	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Ecuador	Ecuador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	about	about	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	2,850	2,850	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	_
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
56	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
58	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	60	amod	_	_
59	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	60	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 | **is a** | present | Bolivia's official capital and the highest seat of government in the world | Sucre and the highest official capital |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | present | capital's government |  |  | La |  | at 3,600 metres | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in la=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the air |  |  |  |  | with less oxygen; thin *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | present | newcomers |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Bolivia's official capital and the highest seat of government in the world *not said here* | the highest official capital |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R7-rel-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.

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