The United States and its states, sentence 8
Alaska is the largest state and lies in the far north-west, next to Canada.
Who acts: Alaska · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: largest state, Canada
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 (Alaska), 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 | Alaska | Alaska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 state | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 state | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 state | det |
| 4 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 state | amod |
| 5 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lies | cc |
| 7 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 state | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Canada | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 west | det |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 Canada | advmod |
| 11 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 west | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 north | punct |
| 13 | west | west | ADV | _ | 10 far | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Canada | punct |
| 15 | next | next | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 16 to | fixed |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Canada | case |
| 17 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lies | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 state | 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 a | present | Alaska | the largest state | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | Alaska not said here | Canada | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in canada=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:8.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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