Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 6
The old lake bed is soft, so parts of the city are slowly sinking.
Who acts: old lake bed, parts · What happens: be, sink
This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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 (old lake bed, parts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bed | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bed | amod |
| 3 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bed | compound |
| 4 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soft | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 soft | cop |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sinking | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 sinking | advmod |
| 9 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sinking | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parts | nmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sinking | aux |
| 14 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 15 sinking | advmod |
| 15 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 soft | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 soft | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the old lake bed | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink | present · progressive | parts of the city | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:6.
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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