--- title: Alaska is the largest state by area, though cold and remote, so few… — The United States · tree and pragmatics description: Alaska is the largest state by area, though cold and remote, so few people live there, and Rhode Island the smallest, while California has the most people, about 39 million, followed by Texas. Who acts: Alaska, few people, California. A sentence of the lesson «The United States» of the geography cou --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # The United States, sentence 12 Alaska is the largest state by area, though cold and remote, so few people live there, and Rhode Island the smallest, while California has the most people, about 39 million, followed by Texas. **Who acts:** Alaska, few people, California · **What happens:** be, live, have, follow · **To what, where:** largest state, most people 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 (Alaska, few people, California), 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:12 # text = Alaska is the largest state by area, though cold and remote, so few people live there, and Rhode Island the smallest, while California has the most people, about 39 million, followed by Texas. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Alaska Alaska PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 though though SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 10 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 remote remote ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 Rhode Rhode PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 about about ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 39 39 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 compound _ _ 35 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obj 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 followed follow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl:agent _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | | | | by area; Rhode Island *nmod*; the smallest *nmod* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | few people | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | California | the most people | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 4 | **follow** | participle | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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](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:12`. **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 ×3. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/11/) - next →: [The United States, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/)