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title: The Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803 roughly doubled the size… — The United States · tree and pragmatics
description: The Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803 roughly doubled the size of the United States, and Alaska was bought from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars. Who acts: Louisiana Purchase. A sentence of the lesson «The United States» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# The United States, sentence 10

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The Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803 roughly doubled the size of the United States, and Alaska was bought from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars.

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**Who acts:** Louisiana Purchase · **What happens:** double, buy · **To what, where:** size, Alaska, Russia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States» of the geography 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 (Louisiana Purchase), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:009-the-united-states.lesson:10
# text = The Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803 roughly doubled the size of the United States, and Alaska was bought from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 009-the-united-states.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Louisiana	Louisiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1803	1803	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	doubled	double	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	15	compound	_	_
15	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1867	1867	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	7.2	7.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	_
27	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **double** | past | the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803 | the size of the United States |  |  |  | roughly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent size=Patient |
| 2 | **buy** | past · passive |  | Alaska |  | Russia |  | in 1867; for million dollars | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme from russia=Source for dollar=Asset |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:009-the-united-states.lesson:10`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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