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title: Alaska is the largest state and lies in the far north-west, next to… — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics
description: Alaska is the largest state and lies in the far north-west, next to Canada. Who acts: Alaska. 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 8

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Alaska is the largest state and lies in the far north-west, next to Canada.

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**Who acts:** Alaska · **What happens:** be, lie · **To what, where:** largest state, Canada

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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 (Alaska), 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:8
# text = Alaska is the largest state and lies in the far north-west, next to Canada.
# 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 ×1
1	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
11	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	west	west	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	next	next	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	16	fixed	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 a** | present | Alaska | the largest state |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | present | Alaska *not said here* |  |  | Canada |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in canada=Location |

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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:8`.

**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 ×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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