Plate tectonics, sentence 1
The plates are always moving, very slowly, about as fast as your fingernails grow, carried on the slowly flowing mantle below.
Who acts: plates, fingernails · What happens: move, grow, carry, flow · To what, where: flowing mantle
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 (plates, fingernails), 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 plates | det |
| 2 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moving | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 moving | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 moving | advmod |
| 5 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 slowly | punct |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 slowly | advmod |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 moving | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fast | punct |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 moving | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 grow | mark |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fingernails | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fingernails | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grow | nsubj |
| 16 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fast | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grow | punct |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 moving | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 mantle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mantle | det |
| 21 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 22 flowing | advmod |
| 22 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 mantle | amod |
| 23 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obl |
| 24 | below | below | ADV | _ | 23 mantle | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moving | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · progressive | the plates | always, fast, slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | your fingernails | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | participle | the plates not said here | the flowing mantle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | flow | gerund | slowly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:1.
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): no change. 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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