The United States and its states, sentence 2
The land is like a giant bowl: the old, low Appalachian Mountains in the east, the wide flat Great Plains in the middle, the high Rocky Mountains in the west through states such as Colorado, and the hot dry deserts of the Southwest in Arizona, Nevada and southern California.
Who acts: land · What happens: be
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 (land), 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 | 2 land | det |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bowl | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bowl | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 bowl | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bowl | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bowl | amod |
| 7 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 bowl | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mountains | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Mountains | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| 12 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Mountains | amod |
| 13 | Appalachian | Appalachian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mountains | compound |
| 14 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 bowl | appos |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 east | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 east | det |
| 17 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Mountains | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Plains | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Plains | det |
| 20 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Plains | amod |
| 21 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Plains | amod |
| 22 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Plains | amod |
| 23 | Plains | plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Mountains | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 middle | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 middle | det |
| 26 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Plains | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Mountains | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Mountains | det |
| 29 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Mountains | amod |
| 30 | Rocky | Rocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Mountains | compound |
| 31 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Mountains | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 west | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 west | det |
| 34 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Mountains | nmod |
| 35 | through | through | ADP | _ | 36 states | case |
| 36 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 west | nmod |
| 37 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 39 Colorado | case |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 such | fixed |
| 39 | Colorado | Colorado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 states | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 deserts | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 deserts | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 deserts | det |
| 43 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 deserts | amod |
| 44 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 deserts | amod |
| 45 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Mountains | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Southwest | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Southwest | det |
| 48 | Southwest | Southwest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 deserts | nmod |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 Arizona | case |
| 50 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Southwest | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 Nevada | punct |
| 52 | Nevada | Nevada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Southwest | flat |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 California | cc |
| 54 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 California | amod |
| 55 | California | California | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Southwest | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bowl | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the land | like a giant bowl | 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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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