The United States and its states, sentence 13
The five Great Lakes lie on the border between the United States and Canada.
Who acts: five Great Lakes · What happens: lie · To what, where: border
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 (five Great Lakes), 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 | 4 Lakes | det |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Lakes | nummod |
| 3 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lakes | amod |
| 4 | Lakes | lake | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 lie | nsubj |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 border | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 border | det |
| 8 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lie | obl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 States | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 States | det |
| 11 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 12 States | flat |
| 12 | States | States | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 border | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Canada | cc |
| 14 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 States | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the five Great Lakes | the border between the United States and Canada | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on border=Location |
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:13.
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): R8-pos-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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