--- title: The young country grew by buying land, like the Louisiana Purchase f… — The United States · tree and pragmatics description: The young country grew by buying land, like the Louisiana Purchase from France and Alaska from Russia, by wars and by settlers pushing west, until it stretched from ocean to ocean. Who acts: young country, wars, land. A sentence of the lesson «The United States» of the geography course of Mova's pri --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # The United States, sentence 2 The young country grew by buying land, like the Louisiana Purchase from France and Alaska from Russia, by wars and by settlers pushing west, until it stretched from ocean to ocean. **Who acts:** young country, wars, land · **What happens:** grow, buy, push, stretch · **To what, where:** land, ocean 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 (young country, wars, land), 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:2 # text = The young country grew by buying land, like the Louisiana Purchase from France and Alaska from Russia, by wars and by settlers pushing west, until it stretched from ocean to ocean. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 by by SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 buying buy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 7 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Louisiana Louisiana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Purchase purchase NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 Alaska Alaska PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 settlers settler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 pushing push VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 26 west west ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 until until SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **grow** | past | the young country | | | | | like the Louisiana Purchase from France and Alaska from Russia | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **buy** | gerund | the young country *not said here* | land | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 3 | **push** | gerund | wars and settlers *not said here* | | | | | west *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stretch** | past | land | | | ocean | | to ocean | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ocean=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:2`. **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): no change. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/1/) - next →: [The United States, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/)