The United States and its states, sentence 9
Hawaii is a chain of volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Who acts: Hawaii · What happens: be · To what, where: chain
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 (Hawaii), 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 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chain | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chain | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chain | det |
| 4 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 islands | case |
| 6 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 islands | amod |
| 7 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 chain | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Ocean | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Ocean | det |
| 10 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ocean | compound |
| 11 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 islands | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chain | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hawaii | a chain | of volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean | 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:9.
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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