Inside the Earth, sentence 7

The mantle is about 2,900 km thick and is solid rock, but over millions of years it slowly flows like very stiff putty; only small pockets of it melt into runny rock.

Who acts: mantle, small pockets · What happens: be, flow, melt · To what, where: solid rock, millions, runny rock

This is a sentence of the lesson «Inside the Earth» 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 (mantle, small pockets), 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 mantle	det
2	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thick	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thick	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 2,900	advmod
5	2,900	2,900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 km	nummod
6	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thick	obl:unmarked
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rock	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 rock	cop
10	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rock	amod
11	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thick	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flows	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 melt	cc
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 millions	case
15	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flows	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 years	case
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 millions	nmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 flows	nsubj
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	20 flows	advmod
20	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thick	conj
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 putty	case
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 stiff	advmod
23	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 putty	amod
24	putty	putty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flows	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 pockets	punct
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 pockets	advmod
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pockets	amod
28	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 melt	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pockets	nmod
31	melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thick	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 rock	case
33	runny	runny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 rock	amod
34	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 melt	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thick	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the mantle			2,900 km obl:unmarked; thick property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the mantle not said here	solid rock			tree rules
3	flow	present	mantle		millions of years	like stiff putty; slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over million=Location
4	melt	present	small pockets of mantle		runny rock		vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into rock=Product

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:041-inside-the-earth.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): R6-punct-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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