How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life, sentence 15
Sea fossils are found at the top of Mount Everest, because that rock formed under the sea and was pushed up as continents collided; mountains still rise a few millimetres a year.
Who acts: rock, continents, mountains · What happens: find, form, push up, collide, rise · To what, where: Sea fossils, top, sea, few millimetres
This is a sentence of the lesson «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life» of the biology 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 (rock, continents, mountains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fossils | compound |
| 2 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux:pass |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Everest | case |
| 9 | Mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Everest | compound |
| 10 | Everest | everest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 top | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 formed | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 formed | mark |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 rock | det |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 formed | nsubj |
| 15 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | advcl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 formed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pushed | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pushed | aux:pass |
| 21 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 formed | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 pushed | compound:prt |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 collided | mark |
| 24 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 collided | nsubj |
| 25 | collided | collide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pushed | advcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 27 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 rise | nsubj |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 rise | advmod |
| 29 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 millimetres | det |
| 31 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 millimetres | amod |
| 32 | millimetres | millimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 rise | obj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 year | det |
| 34 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rise | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | Sea fossils | the top of Mount Everest | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at top=Asset | ||||
| 2 | form | past | that rock | the sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Location | ||||
| 3 | push up | past · passive | that rock not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP» | |||||
| 4 | collide | past | continents | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rise | present | mountains | a few millimetres | still; year | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location millimetre=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, 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:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life.lesson:15.
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.
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