Mountains and highlands, sentence 9
Mauna Kea in Hawaii rises over 10,000 metres from its base on the sea floor, taller than Everest, though only about 4,200 metres stick out above the sea.
Who acts: Mauna, 4,200 metres · What happens: rise, stick out · To what, where: 10,000 metres, base, sea
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 (Mauna, 4,200 metres), 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 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rises | nsubj |
| 2 | Kea | Kea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mauna | flat |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Hawaii | case |
| 4 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mauna | nmod |
| 5 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 10,000 | advmod |
| 7 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 metres | nummod |
| 8 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rises | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 base | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 base | nmod:poss |
| 11 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rises | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floor | compound |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 base | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taller | punct |
| 17 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 rises | parataxis |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 Everest | case |
| 19 | Everest | Everest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 taller | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stick | punct |
| 21 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 stick | mark |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 4,200 | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 4,200 | advmod |
| 24 | 4,200 | 4,200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 metres | nummod |
| 25 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stick | nsubj |
| 26 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rises | advcl |
| 27 | out | out | ADV | _ | 26 stick | advmod |
| 28 | above | above | ADP | _ | 30 sea | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sea | det |
| 30 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stick | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rises | 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 | rise | present | Mauna in Hawaii | 10,000 metres | land's base on the sea floor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from base=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stick out | present | 4,200 metres | the sea | out property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme above sea=Destination |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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