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title: The 48 states that lie together have four main time zones, and the E… — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics
description: The 48 states that lie together have four main time zones, and the East is three hours ahead of the West Coast. Who acts: 48 states, East. 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 cla
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# The United States and its states, sentence 16

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The 48 states that lie together have four main time zones, and the East is three hours ahead of the West Coast.

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**Who acts:** 48 states, East · **What happens:** lie, have, hour, be · **To what, where:** four main time zones

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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 (48 states, East), 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:16
# text = The 48 states that lie together have four main time zones, and the East is three hours ahead of the West Coast.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	48	48	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **lie** | present | the 48 states |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | the 48 states | four main time zones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zone=Patient |
| 3 | **hour** |  | the East |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the 48 states *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the West Coast; ahead *property* | 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:16`.

**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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