The United States and its states, sentence 0
The United States of America is a huge country in North America made of 50 states; its capital is Washington, D.C., which is not in any state, and its largest city is New York City.
Who acts: United States, capital, D.C., largest city · What happens: be, make, not be · To what, where: huge country, North America, Washington, state, York City
This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States and its states» of the world 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 (United States, capital, D.C., largest city), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 States | det |
| 2 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 3 States | compound |
| 3 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 country | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 America | case |
| 5 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 States | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 country | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 country | amod |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 America | case |
| 11 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 America | compound |
| 12 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 country | nmod |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 country | acl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 states | case |
| 15 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 states | nummod |
| 16 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 Washington | punct |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 capital | nmod:poss |
| 19 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Washington | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Washington | cop |
| 21 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 country | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 D.C. | punct |
| 23 | D.C. | D.C. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Washington | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 state | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 state | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 state | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 state | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 state | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 state | det |
| 30 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 D.C. | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 City | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 City | cc |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 city | nmod:poss |
| 34 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 city | amod |
| 35 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 City | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 City | cop |
| 37 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 38 York | compound |
| 38 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 City | compound |
| 39 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Washington | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 country | punct |
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 United States of America | a huge country | North America | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | participle | a huge country not said here | of 50 states | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | country's capital | Washington and York City | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | D.C. | any state | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | capital's largest city | York City | 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, 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:world:044-the-usa-and-its-states.lesson:0.
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 ×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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