The United States and its states, sentence 16
The 48 states that lie together have four main time zones, and the East is three hours ahead of the West Coast.
Who acts: 48 states, East · What happens: lie, have, hour, be · To what, where: four main time zones
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 (48 states, East), 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 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 states | nummod |
| 3 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lie | nsubj |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 states | acl:relcl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 lie | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 zones | nummod |
| 9 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 zones | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 zones | compound |
| 11 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ahead | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ahead | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 East | det |
| 15 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hours | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ahead | cop |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 hours | nummod |
| 18 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ahead | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 7 have | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Coast | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Coast | det |
| 22 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Coast | compound |
| 23 | Coast | Coast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ahead | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the 48 states | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the 48 states | four main time zones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hour | the East | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | the 48 states not said here | of the West Coast; ahead property | 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:16.
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): no change. 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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