--- title: Brazil is the largest country in South America, with about 213 milli… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics description: Brazil is the largest country in South America, with about 213 million people, and its capital is Brasília, a planned city built far inland that replaced Rio de Janeiro in 1960, to bring people and growth into the inland, away from the coast. Who acts: Brazil, capital, planned city. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brazil, capital, planned city), 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:9 # text = Brazil is the largest country in South America, with about 213 million people, and its capital is Brasília, a planned city built far inland that replaced Rio de Janeiro in 1960, to bring people and growth into the inland, away from the coast. # 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 ×2 1 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 213 213 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 compound _ _ 13 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 Brasília Brasília PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 planned plan VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 25 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 27 inland inland ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 replaced replace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 Rio Rio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ _ 32 Janeiro Janeiro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 1960 1960 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 41 into into ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 inland inland ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 obl _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 away away ADV RB _ 37 parataxis _ _ 46 from from ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Brazil | the largest country | | South America | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | breath's capital | Brasília | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **plan** | participle | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **build** | participle | | a planned city *not said here* | | | | inland *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **replace** | past | a planned city | Rio Janeiro | | 1960 | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme janeiro=Co-Theme | | 6 | **bring** | to-infinitive | a planned city *not said here* | people and growth | | the inland | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme into inland=Destination | 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:9`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Latin America and the Caribbean, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/8/) - next →: [Latin America and the Caribbean, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/)