Plate tectonics, sentence 0

The Earth's hard outer shell, the lithosphere, is cracked into giant pieces called plates, which fit together like a jigsaw that has been dropped on the floor.

Who acts: giant pieces · What happens: crack, call, fit together, drop · To what, where: hard outer shell, giant pieces, plates, jigsaw, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plate tectonics» 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 (giant pieces), 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 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shell	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Earth	case
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shell	amod
5	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shell	amod
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cracked	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lithosphere	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lithosphere	det
9	lithosphere	lithosphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shell	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shell	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cracked	aux:pass
12	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 pieces	case
14	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pieces	amod
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cracked	obl
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 pieces	acl
17	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 called	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fit	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 fit	nsubj
20	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pieces	acl:relcl
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 fit	advmod
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 jigsaw	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 jigsaw	det
24	jigsaw	jigsaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fit	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 dropped	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 dropped	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 dropped	aux:pass
28	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 jigsaw	acl:relcl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 floor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 floor	det
31	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dropped	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cracked	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	crack	present · passive		the Earth's hard outer shell		into giant pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into piece=Result
2	call	participle	giant pieces not said here	plates			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fit together	present	giant pieces			like a jigsaw; together property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	drop	present · perfect · passive		a jigsaw	the floor		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on floor=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:042-plate-tectonics.lesson:0.

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): 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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