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title: Death Valley in California is one of the hottest places on Earth. — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics
description: Death Valley in California is one of the hottest places on Earth. Who acts: Death Valley. A sentence of the lesson «The United States and its states» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The United States and its states, sentence 14

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Death Valley in California is one of the hottest places on Earth.

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**Who acts:** Death Valley · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States and its states» of the world 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 (Death Valley), 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:14
# text = Death Valley in California is one of the hottest places on Earth.
# 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): no change
1	Death	death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	hottest	hot	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 a** | present | Death Valley in California | one |  |  |  | of the hottest places on Earth | tree rules |

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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:world:044-the-usa-and-its-states.lesson:14`.

**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/).

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