The United States and its states, sentence 3
The Mississippi River flows south through the middle of the country into the Gulf of Mexico, and the five Great Lakes on the border with Canada hold about a fifth of all the fresh lake water on the Earth's surface.
Who acts: Mississippi River, five Great Lakes · What happens: flow, hold · To what, where: middle, fifth
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 (Mississippi River, 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 | 3 River | det |
| 2 | Mississippi | Mississippi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 River | compound |
| 3 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flows | nsubj |
| 4 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | south | south | ADV | _ | 4 flows | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flows | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 middle | nmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 Gulf | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Gulf | det |
| 14 | Gulf | Gulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flows | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Mexico | case |
| 16 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Gulf | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hold | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hold | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Lakes | det |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 Lakes | nummod |
| 21 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Lakes | amod |
| 22 | Lakes | lake | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 hold | nsubj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 border | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 border | det |
| 25 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Lakes | nmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 Canada | case |
| 27 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 border | nmod |
| 28 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flows | conj |
| 29 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 fifth | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fifth | det |
| 31 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hold | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 water | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 water | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 water | det |
| 35 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 water | amod |
| 36 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 water | compound |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fifth | nmod |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 surface | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Earth | det |
| 40 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 surface | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 Earth | case |
| 42 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 water | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | the Mississippi River | the middle of the country | into the Gulf of Mexico; south property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Location | |||
| 2 | hold | present | the five Great Lakes on the border with Canada | a fifth of all fresh lake water on the Earth's surface | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Theme |
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:3.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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