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title: Spain's capital is Madrid, which Philip II made the permanent seat o… — Europe: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Spain's capital is Madrid, which Philip II made the permanent seat of the court in 1561 partly because it lies near the centre of the country. Who acts: capital, Philip, seat. A sentence of the lesson «Europe: countries and capitals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Europe: countries and capitals, sentence 9

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Spain's capital is Madrid, which Philip II made the permanent seat of the court in 1561 partly because it lies near the centre of the country.

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**Who acts:** capital, Philip, seat · **What happens:** be, make, lie · **To what, where:** Madrid, 1561, centre

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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, Philip, 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:9
# text = Spain's capital is Madrid, which Philip II made the permanent seat of the court in 1561 partly because it lies near the centre of the country.
# 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	Spain	Spain	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	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	Philip	Philip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1561	1561	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
19	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	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 | Spain's capital | Madrid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | Philip | Madrid |  | 1561 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset which=Beneficiary seat=Product |
| 3 | **lie** | present | seat |  |  | the centre of the country |  | partly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near centre=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:007-europe-countries-and-capitals.lesson:9`.

**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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