--- title: The United States of America is a huge country in North America made… — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: United States, capital, D.C., largest city. 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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, capital, D.C., largest city), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:044-the-usa-and-its-states.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 044-the-usa-and-its-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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 United United PROPN NNP _ 3 compound _ _ 3 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 states state NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 Washington Washington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 D.C. D.C. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 acl:relcl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 35 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 New New PROPN NNP _ 38 compound _ _ 38 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the United States of America | a huge country | | North America | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a huge country *not said here* | | | | of 50 states | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **is a** | present | country's capital | Washington and York City | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | D.C. | | | any state | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | capital's largest city | York City | | | | | tree rules | 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:world:044-the-usa-and-its-states.lesson:0`. **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 ×1. **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: [Mountains, rivers and seas, and how th…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/43-landforms/19/) - next →: [The United States and its states, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/)