--- title: The capital of Australia is Canberra, built as a compromise between… — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole… · tree and pragmatics description: The capital of Australia is Canberra, built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne (a deal where each side gives a bit, because both cities wanted to be the capital). Who acts: capital, side, cities. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (capital, side, cities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:8 # text = The capital of Australia is Canberra, built as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne (a deal where each side gives a bit, because both cities wanted to be the capital). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 Canberra Canberra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 compromise compromise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 between between ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Melbourne Melbourne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the capital of Australia | Canberra | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | participle | | Canberra *not said here* | | | | as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **give** | present | each side | a bit | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | | 4 | **want** | past | both cities | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | both cities *not said here* | the capital | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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. 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