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title: California, with the city of Los Angeles, is on the West Coast by th… — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: California, New York. A sentence of the lesson «The United States and its states» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# The United States and its states, sentence 17

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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.

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**Who acts:** California, New York · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** West Coast, East Coast

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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 (California, New York), 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:17
# text = 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.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Angeles	Angeles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27: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** | present | California |  |  | the West Coast |  | by the Pacific | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | New York and Florida |  |  | the East Coast |  | by the Atlantic | 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:17`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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