--- title: The United States and its states — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The United States and its states», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The United States of America is a huge country in North America made of 50 states; its capital is Washington, D.C., which is not in any sta --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / The United States and its states # The United States and its states Lesson 44 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/0/) — The United States of America is a huge country in North America made of 50 states; its capital is Washington, D.C., which is not in any state, and its largest city is New York City. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/1/) — Forty-eight states lie together between Canada and Mexico, from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; Alaska lies far to the north-west next to Canada, and Hawaii is a chain of volcanic islands in the middle of the Pacific. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/2/) — The land is like a giant bowl: the old, low Appalachian Mountains in the east, the wide flat Great Plains in the middle, the high Rocky Mountains in the west through states such as Colorado, and the hot dry deserts of the Southwest in Arizona, Nevada and southern California. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/3/) — The Mississippi River flows south through the middle of the country into the Gulf of Mexico, and the five Great Lakes on the border with Canada hold about a fifth of all the fresh lake water on the Earth's surface. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/4/) — The country is so wide that it has several time zones: when it is 9 o'clock in the morning in New York, it is only 6 o'clock in Los Angeles, because the Sun rises in the east first. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/6/) — The capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/7/) — New York City is the largest city in the United States. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/8/) — Alaska is the largest state and lies in the far north-west, next to Canada. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/9/) — Hawaii is a chain of volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/10/) — Texas is the largest of the 48 states that lie together. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/11/) — The Mississippi River flows south into the Gulf of Mexico. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/12/) — The Rocky Mountains run north to south through the western United States. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/13/) — The five Great Lakes lie on the border between the United States and Canada. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/14/) — Death Valley in California is one of the hottest places on Earth. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/15/) — Florida is a warm peninsula in the south-east, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/16/) — The 48 states that lie together have four main time zones, and the East is three hours ahead of the West Coast. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/17/) — California, with the city of Los Angeles, is on the West Coast by the Pacific; New York and Florida are on the East Coast by the Atlantic. - ← previous: [Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/43-landforms/) - next →: [The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)