Mountains and highlands, sentence 11

The Alps arc across eight countries, and Mont Blanc, on the French-Italian border, is their highest peak at about 4,800 metres, its exact height changing slightly with its ice cap.

Who acts: Alps, Mont, exact height · What happens: arc, be, change · To what, where: eight countries, highest peak, 4,800 metres

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains and highlands» 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 (Alps, Mont, exact height), 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 Alps	det
2	Alps	alps	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arc	nsubj
3	arc	arc	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 countries	case
5	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 countries	nummod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 arc	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Mont	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 peak	cc
9	Mont	Mont	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 peak	nsubj
10	Blanc	Blanc	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mont	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 border	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	17 border	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 border	det
14	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Italian	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 French	punct
16	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 border	amod
17	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Mont	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 peak	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 peak	cop
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 peak	nmod:poss
21	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 peak	amod
22	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arc	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 metres	case
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 4,800	advmod
25	4,800	4,800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 metres	nummod
26	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 peak	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 height	punct
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 height	nmod:poss
29	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 height	amod
30	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 peak	conj
31	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 height	acl
32	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	31 changing	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 cap	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 cap	nmod:poss
35	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cap	compound
36	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 changing	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 peak	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arc	present	the Alps		eight countries		tree rules
2	is a	present	Mont on the Italian border	countries's highest peak and Alps's exact height	4,800 metres		tree rules
3	change	gerund	Alps's exact height not said here			with Alps's ice cap; slightly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:017-mountains-and-highlands.lesson:11.

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, 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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