--- title: New York City is the largest city in the United States, with about 8… — The United States · tree and pragmatics description: New York City is the largest city in the United States, with about 8.5 million people, and began as the Dutch town of New Amsterdam, taken by the English in 1664. Who acts: New York City. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (New York City), 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:13 # text = New York City is the largest city in the United States, with about 8.5 million people, and began as the Dutch town of New Amsterdam, taken by the English in 1664. # 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 ×1 1 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 United United PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 amod _ _ 11 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 8.5 8.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 compound _ _ 16 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Dutch dutch ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Amsterdam Amsterdam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl:agent _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 1664 1664 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | New York City | the largest city | | the United States | | with million people | tree rules | | 2 | **begin** | past | New York City *not said here* | | | | | as the Dutch town of New Amsterdam | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **take** | participle | | the Dutch town of New Amsterdam *not said here* | | 1664 | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1664=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](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:13`. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The United States, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/12/) - next →: [The United States, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/)