--- title: The United States has about 340 million people, the third largest po… — The United States · tree and pragmatics description: The United States has about 340 million people, the third largest population after India and China, and covers about 9.8 million square kilometres. Who acts: United States. 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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 (United States), 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:6 # text = The United States has about 340 million people, the third largest population after India and China, and covers about 9.8 million square kilometres. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 United United PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 340 340 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 12 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 22 9.8 9.8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 compound _ _ 23 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 24 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the United States | million people | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 2 | **cover** | present | the United States *not said here* | million square kilometres | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=Destination | 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:6`. **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/). - ← previous: [The United States, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/3/) - next →: [The United States, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/)