--- title: The United States has the old, worn Appalachian Mountains in the eas… — The United States · tree and pragmatics description: The United States has the old, worn Appalachian Mountains in the east, the flat Great Plains in the middle and the high, young Rocky Mountains in the west. Who acts: United States. A sentence of the lesson «The United States» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The United States](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/) / 11 # The United States, sentence 11 The United States has the old, worn Appalachian Mountains in the east, the flat Great Plains in the middle and the high, young Rocky Mountains in the west. **Who acts:** United States · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** old worn Appalachian Mountains, east 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 (United States), 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:11 # text = The United States has the old, worn Appalachian Mountains in the east, the flat Great Plains in the middle and the high, young Rocky Mountains in the west. # 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): R5-strong ×6 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 United United PROPN NNP _ 3 compound _ _ 3 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 worn worn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 9 Appalachian Appalachian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Mountains Mountain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 Great great PROPN NNP _ 18 compound _ _ 18 Plains plain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 24 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 Rocky Rocky PROPN NNP _ 28 compound _ _ 28 Mountains Mountain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the United States | the old worn Appalachian Mountains | | the east and the flat Great Plains in the middle and the high young Rocky Mountains in the west | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | 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](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:11`. **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 ×6. **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/). - ← previous: [The United States, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/10/) - next →: [The United States, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/)