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title: Australia's capital is Canberra, built as a compromise between Sydne… — Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Australia's capital is Canberra, built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne, and the UAE's capital is Abu Dhabi, not Dubai. Who acts: capital. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Olympiad: which country am I? ★★★, sentence 6

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Australia's capital is Canberra, built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne, and the UAE's capital is Abu Dhabi, not Dubai.

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**Who acts:** capital · **What happens:** be, build · **To what, where:** Canberra, Abu

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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), 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:6
# text = Australia's capital is Canberra, built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne, and the UAE's capital is Abu Dhabi, not Dubai.
# 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): no change
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	compromise	compromise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	UAE	UAE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	Abu	Abu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
23	Dhabi	Dhabi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	Dubai	Dubai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	.	.	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 | Australia's capital | Canberra and Abu and Dubai |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | Canberra and Abu and Dubai *not said here* |  |  |  | as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the UAE's capital | Abu and Dubai |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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