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title: The land is like a giant bowl: the old, low Appalachian Mountains in… — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: land. A senten
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# The United States and its states, sentence 2

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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.

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**Who acts:** land · **What happens:** be

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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 (land), 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:2
# text = 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.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Appalachian	Appalachian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Plains	plain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	Rocky	Rocky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:amod
31	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	39	case	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	fixed	_	_
39	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Southwest	Southwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	Nevada	Nevada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	flat	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the land |  |  |  |  | like a giant bowl | 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:2`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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