The United States, sentence 3
Its shape is easy to remember: old, worn Appalachians in the east, the flat Great Plains in the middle and the high, young Rockies in the west.
Who acts: shape · What happens: be, remember
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 (shape), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 shape | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 easy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 remember | mark |
| 6 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | xcomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 old | punct |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Appalachians | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Appalachians | punct |
| 10 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Appalachians | amod |
| 11 | Appalachians | appalachian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 easy | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 east | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 east | det |
| 14 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Appalachians | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Plains | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Plains | det |
| 17 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Plains | amod |
| 18 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Plains | amod |
| 19 | Plains | plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Appalachians | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 middle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 middle | det |
| 22 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Plains | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Rockies | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Rockies | det |
| 25 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Rockies | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 high | punct |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Rockies | amod |
| 28 | Rockies | Rocky | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 easy | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 west | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 west | det |
| 31 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Rockies | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | land's shape | old worn Appalachians in the east and the flat Great Plains in the middle obl; the high young Rockies in the west obl; easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | to-infinitive | land's shape not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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:3.
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 ×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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