--- title: Picture Mexico City today: its cathedral stands on the ruins of Teno… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Mexico City today: its cathedral stands on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital on an island in a lake, which the Spanish conquered in 1521. Who acts: you, cathedral, Spanish. A sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Latin America and the Caribbean](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/) / 5 # Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 5 Picture Mexico City today: its cathedral stands on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital on an island in a lake, which the Spanish conquered in 1521. **Who acts:** you, cathedral, Spanish · **What happens:** picture, stand, conquer, ruin · **To what, where:** Mexico, ruins, island, 1521, Tenochtitlan 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 (you, cathedral, Spanish), 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:5 # text = Picture Mexico City today: its cathedral stands on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital on an island in a lake, which the Spanish conquered in 1521. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 cathedral cathedral NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ruins ruin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Aztec Aztec PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj _ _ 28 conquered conquer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1521 1521 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Mexico | | | today | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mexico=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | present | population's cathedral | | | the ruins of Tenochtitlan | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ruin=Location | | 3 | **conquer** | past | the Spanish | a island in a lake | | 1521 | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | | 4 | **ruin** | | | Tenochtitlan | | | | | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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:5`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Latin America and the Caribbean, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/4/) - next →: [Latin America and the Caribbean, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/)