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title: Turkey's capital is Ankara, chosen in 1923, while its largest city,… — Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Turkey's capital is Ankara, chosen in 1923, while its largest city, Istanbul, lies on both sides of the Bosporus, in Europe and in Asia. Who acts: capital, largest city. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★, sentence 5

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Turkey's capital is Ankara, chosen in 1923, while its largest city, Istanbul, lies on both sides of the Bosporus, in Europe and in Asia.

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**Who acts:** capital, largest city · **What happens:** be, chosen, lie · **To what, where:** Ankara, 1923, sides

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» 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 (capital, largest city), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:064-olympiad-which-country-am-i.lesson:5
# text = Turkey's capital is Ankara, chosen in 1923, while its largest city, Istanbul, lies on both sides of the Bosporus, in Europe and in Asia.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 064-olympiad-which-country-am-i.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Ankara	Ankara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	chosen	chosen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1923	1923	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Bosporus	bosporus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Turkey's capital | Ankara |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chosen** | participle |  | Ankara *not said here* |  | 1923 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | present | capital's largest city |  |  | both sides of the Bosporus |  | in Europe and Asia | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |

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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:064-olympiad-which-country-am-i.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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