The United States and its states, sentence 1

Forty-eight states lie together between Canada and Mexico, from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; Alaska lies far to the north-west next to Canada, and Hawaii is a chain of volcanic islands in the middle of the Pacific.

Who acts: eight states, Alaska, Hawaii · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: Atlantic Ocean, chain

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 (eight states, Alaska, Hawaii), 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	Forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eight	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 states	nummod
4	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lie	nsubj
5	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 lie	advmod
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 Canada	case
8	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lie	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Mexico	cc
10	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Canada	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Ocean	punct
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 Ocean	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Ocean	det
14	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Ocean	compound
15	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lie	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 east	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 east	det
18	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lie	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 Ocean	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Ocean	det
21	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Ocean	compound
22	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 east	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 west	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 west	det
25	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Ocean	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 lies	punct
27	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lies	nsubj
28	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	conj
29	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 lies	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 north	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 north	det
32	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 far	obl
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 next	punct
34	west	west	ADV	_	35 next	advmod
35	next	next	ADV	_	28 lies	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 Canada	case
37	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 next	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 chain	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 chain	cc
40	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 chain	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 chain	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 chain	det
43	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lie	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 islands	case
45	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 islands	amod
46	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 chain	nmod
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 middle	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 middle	det
49	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 islands	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 Pacific	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Pacific	det
52	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 middle	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present	eight states		the Atlantic Ocean	between Canada and Mexico; in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between canada=Location
2	lie	present	Alaska			far, next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	Hawaii	a chain		of volcanic islands in the middle of the Pacific	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:1.

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, R8-pos-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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