The United States, sentence 17
D.C. stands for District of Columbia, and the capital was put outside every state so that no single state would control the national government.
Who acts: D.C., single state · What happens: stand, put, control · To what, where: capital, state, national government
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 (D.C., single state), 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 | D.C. | D.C. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stands | nsubj |
| 2 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 District | case |
| 4 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stands | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Columbia | case |
| 6 | Columbia | Columbia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 District | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 capital | det |
| 10 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux:pass |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stands | conj |
| 13 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 15 state | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 state | det |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 control | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 state | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 state | amod |
| 20 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 control | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 control | aux |
| 22 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 put | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 government | det |
| 24 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 government | amod |
| 25 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 control | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | D.C. | for District of Columbia | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for district=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | put | past · passive | the capital | every state | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme outside state=Destination | ||||
| 3 | control | would | no single state | the national government | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=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:17.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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