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title: Its shape is easy to remember: old, worn Appalachians in the east, t… — The United States · tree and pragmatics
description: Its shape is easy to remember: old, worn Appalachians in the east, the flat Great Plains in the middle and the high, young Rockies in the west. Who acts: shape. A sentence of the lesson «The United States» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The United States, sentence 3

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Its shape is easy to remember: old, worn Appalachians in the east, the flat Great Plains in the middle and the high, young Rockies in the west.

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**Who acts:** shape · **What happens:** be, remember

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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 (shape), 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:3
# text = Its shape is easy to remember: old, worn Appalachians in the east, the flat Great Plains in the middle and the high, young Rockies in the west.
# 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 ×2
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Appalachians	appalachian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Plains	plain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Rockies	Rocky	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | land's shape |  |  |  |  | old worn Appalachians in the east and the flat Great Plains in the middle *obl*; the high young Rockies in the west *obl*; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | to-infinitive | land's shape *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:3`.

**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 ×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/).

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