Maps and scale, sentence 9
Contour lines join points of equal height above sea level, and lines drawn close together mean the ground is steep.
Who acts: Contour lines, lines, ground · What happens: join, draw, mean, be, point · To what, where: points, lines, equal height · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Maps and scale» of the geography 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 (Contour lines, lines, ground), 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 | Contour | contour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lines | compound |
| 2 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 join | nsubj |
| 3 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 join | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 height | case |
| 6 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 height | amod |
| 7 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 points | nmod |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 10 level | case |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 level | compound |
| 10 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 height | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mean | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mean | cc |
| 13 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mean | nsubj |
| 14 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lines | acl |
| 15 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 drawn | advmod |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 drawn | advmod |
| 17 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 join | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steep | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 steep | cop |
| 21 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mean | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 join | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | present | Contour lines | points of equal height above sea level | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient | ||||
| 2 | draw | participle | lines not said here | close, together property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | lines | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the ground | steep property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | point | equal height above sea level | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:geography:001-maps-and-scale.lesson:9.
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): R2-punct-next ×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.
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