--- title: Yellowstone, created in 1872, was the world's first national park, a… — The United States · tree and pragmatics description: Yellowstone, created in 1872, was the world's first national park, and it sits on top of a huge volcanic hotspot that feeds its geysers. Who acts: Yellowstone, law, huge volcanic hotspot. A sentence of the lesson «The United States» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # The United States, sentence 16 Yellowstone, created in 1872, was the world's first national park, and it sits on top of a huge volcanic hotspot that feeds its geysers. **Who acts:** Yellowstone, law, huge volcanic hotspot · **What happens:** create, be, sit, feed · **To what, where:** 1872, first national park, top, geysers 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 (Yellowstone, law, huge volcanic hotspot), 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:16 # text = Yellowstone, created in 1872, was the world's first national park, and it sits on top of a huge volcanic hotspot that feeds its geysers. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Yellowstone Yellowstone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 created create VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1872 1872 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 12 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 volcanic volcanic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 hotspot hotspot NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 geysers geyser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **create** | past | Yellowstone | | | 1872 | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | Yellowstone *not said here* | the world's first national park | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sit** | present | law | | | top of a huge volcanic hotspot | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location | | 4 | **feed** | present | a huge volcanic hotspot | law's geysers | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geyser=Recipient | 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. 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