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title: Some countries are odd: the Netherlands' capital is Amsterdam but it… — Europe: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Some countries are odd: the Netherlands' capital is Amsterdam but its government sits in The Hague, and Switzerland has no capital by law at all. Who acts: countries, capital, government, Switzerland. A sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary
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# Europe: countries and capitals, sentence 4

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Some countries are odd: the Netherlands' capital is Amsterdam but its government sits in The Hague, and Switzerland has no capital by law at all.

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**Who acts:** countries, capital, government, Switzerland · **What happens:** be, sit, have · **To what, where:** Amsterdam, Hague, capital, all

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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 (countries, capital, government, Switzerland), 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:4
# text = Some countries are odd: the Netherlands' capital is Amsterdam but its government sits in The Hague, and Switzerland has no capital by law at all.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Hague	Hague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## 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** | present | some countries |  |  |  |  | odd *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Netherlands's capital | Amsterdam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | present | Netherlands's government |  |  | the Hague |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hague=Location |
| 4 | **have** | present | Switzerland | no capital |  | all |  | by law | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=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:4`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1. **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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