--- title: D.C. stands for District of Columbia, and the capital was put outsid… — The United States · tree and pragmatics description: D.C. stands for District of Columbia, and the capital was put outside every state so that no single state would control the national government. Who acts: D.C., single state. 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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 (D.C., single state), 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:17 # text = D.C. stands for District of Columbia, and the capital was put outside every state so that no single state would control the national government. # 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 ×2 1 D.C. D.C. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 District District PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Columbia Columbia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 13 outside outside ADP IN _ 15 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 16 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 22 mark _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 19 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 control control VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **stand** | present | D.C. | | | | | for District of Columbia | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for district=Attribute | | 2 | **put** | past · passive | | the capital | | every state | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme outside state=Destination | | 3 | **control** | would | no single state | the national government | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=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:17`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/16/) - next →: [Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Irelan…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/)