The United States, sentence 12

Alaska is the largest state by area, though cold and remote, so few people live there, and Rhode Island the smallest, while California has the most people, about 39 million, followed by Texas.

Who acts: Alaska, few people, California · What happens: be, live, have, follow · To what, where: largest state, most people

This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States» 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 (Alaska, few people, California), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 state	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 state	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 state	det
4	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 state	amod
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 area	case
7	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 state	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cold	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 cold	mark
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 state	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 remote	cc
12	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cold	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 live	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 live	advmod
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 live	nsubj
17	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 state	parataxis
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 live	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Island	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Island	cc
21	Rhode	Rhode	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Island	compound
22	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 state	nmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 smallest	det
24	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 state	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 has	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 has	mark
27	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 has	nsubj
28	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 smallest	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 people	det
30	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 people	amod
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 has	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 million	punct
33	about	about	ADV	_	35 million	advmod
34	39	39	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 million	compound
35	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 people	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 followed	punct
37	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 million	acl
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 Texas	case
39	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 followed	obl:agent
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 state	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Alaska	the largest state		by area; Rhode Island nmod; the smallest nmod	tree rules
2	live	present	few people		there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	California	the most people			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
4	follow	participle					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, 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:009-the-united-states.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.

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