Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 7
The mountains shape everything here: Chile is squeezed into a long thin strip by the Andes, and Bolivia's government works in La Paz, about 3,600 metres up, where visitors gasp for breath.
Who acts: mountains, Andes, government, visitors · What happens: shape, squeeze, work, gasp · To what, where: everything, Chile, long thin strip
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 (mountains, Andes, government, visitors), 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 | 2 mountains | det |
| 2 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shape | nsubj |
| 3 | shape | shape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 shape | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 shape | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 squeezed | punct |
| 7 | Chile | Chile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 squeezed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 squeezed | aux:pass |
| 9 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shape | parataxis |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 strip | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 strip | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 strip | amod |
| 13 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 strip | amod |
| 14 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 squeezed | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Andes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Andes | det |
| 17 | Andes | Andes | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 squeezed | obl:agent |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 works | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 works | cc |
| 20 | Bolivia | Bolivia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 government | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Bolivia | case |
| 22 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 works | nsubj |
| 23 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 squeezed | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 La | case |
| 25 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 works | obl |
| 26 | Paz | Paz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 La | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 metres | punct |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 3,600 | advmod |
| 29 | 3,600 | 3,600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 metres | nummod |
| 30 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 up | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 shape | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 gasp | punct |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 gasp | advmod |
| 34 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 gasp | nsubj |
| 35 | gasp | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 La | acl:relcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 breath | case |
| 37 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gasp | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shape | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | present | the mountains | everything | here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product | |||
| 2 | squeeze | present · passive | the Andes | Chile | a long thin strip | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent subject=Material into strip=Product | |||
| 3 | work | present | Bolivia's government | in La | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in la=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gasp | present | visitors | for breath | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient |
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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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