--- title: The Mississippi River flows south through the middle of the country… — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics description: The Mississippi River flows south through the middle of the country into the Gulf of Mexico, and the five Great Lakes on the border with Canada hold about a fifth of all the fresh lake water on the Earth's surface. Who acts: Mississippi River, five Great Lakes. 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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 (Mississippi River, five Great Lakes), 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:3 # text = The Mississippi River flows south through the middle of the country into the Gulf of Mexico, and the five Great Lakes on the border with Canada hold about a fifth of all the fresh lake water on the Earth's surface. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Mississippi Mississippi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 south south ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 6 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Gulf Gulf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 21 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Lakes lake PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obl 32 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flow** | present | the Mississippi River | | | the middle of the country | | into the Gulf of Mexico; south *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Location | | 2 | **hold** | present | the five Great Lakes on the border with Canada | a fifth of all fresh lake water on the Earth's surface | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Theme | 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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [The United States and its states, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/2/) - next →: [The United States and its states, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/44-the-usa-and-its-states/)