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title: The capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, but the government, par… — Europe: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: The capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, but the government, parliament and the king's working palace are in The Hague. Who acts: capital, government. A sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Europe: countries and capitals, sentence 12

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The capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, but the government, parliament and the king's working palace are in The Hague.

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**Who acts:** capital, government · **What happens:** be, work · **To what, where:** Amsterdam, Hague

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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, government), 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:12
# text = The capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, but the government, parliament and the king's working palace are in The Hague.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	parliament	parliament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Hague	Hague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | the capital of the Netherlands | Amsterdam but the Hague |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the government and parliament and the king's working palace |  |  | the Hague |  |  | 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:007-europe-countries-and-capitals.lesson:12`.

**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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