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title: Chile, with its capital Santiago, is about 4,300 km long but on aver… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics
description: Chile, with its capital Santiago, is about 4,300 km long but on average less than 200 km wide, squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific. Who acts: Chile. A sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 17

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Chile, with its capital Santiago, is about 4,300 km long but on average less than 200 km wide, squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific.

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**Who acts:** Chile · **What happens:** be, squeeze · **To what, where:** 4,300 km

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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 (Chile), 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:17
# text = Chile, with its capital Santiago, is about 4,300 km long but on average less than 200 km wide, squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Chile	Chile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	Santiago	Santiago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	4,300	4,300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	_	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
23	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Andes	Andes	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | Chile with capital's capital | 4,300 km |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **squeeze** | participle | Chile with capital's capital *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between the Andes and the Pacific | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:17`.

**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, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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