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title: Poland's capital is Warsaw, which took over from Kraków around 1596,… — Europe: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Poland's capital is Warsaw, which took over from Kraków around 1596, partly because it lay nearer the middle of Poland and Lithuania joined together. Who acts: capital, Warsaw, seat. A sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Europe: countries and capitals, sentence 11

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Poland's capital is Warsaw, which took over from Kraków around 1596, partly because it lay nearer the middle of Poland and Lithuania joined together.

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**Who acts:** capital, Warsaw, seat · **What happens:** be, take over, lie, join · **To what, where:** Warsaw, Kraków, middle

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» 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, Warsaw, seat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:007-europe-countries-and-capitals.lesson:11
# text = Poland's capital is Warsaw, which took over from Kraków around 1596, partly because it lay nearer the middle of Poland and Lithuania joined together.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 007-europe-countries-and-capitals.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	Poland	Poland	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	Warsaw	Warsaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
9	over	over	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Kraków	Kraków	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	around	around	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1596	1596	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
19	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## 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 | Poland's capital | Warsaw |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take over** | past | Warsaw |  |  | Kraków |  | around 1596 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from kraków=Source |
| 3 | **lie** | past | seat | the middle of Poland and Lithuania |  |  |  | near, partly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **join** | past | seat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:007-europe-countries-and-capitals.lesson:11`.

**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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