Plate tectonics, sentence 12
About three-quarters of the world's active volcanoes and most big earthquakes lie around the Pacific, in the Ring of Fire.
Who acts: three quarters · What happens: lie · To what, where: Pacific
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 (three quarters), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 4 quarters | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 quarters | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 three | punct |
| 4 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lie | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 volcanoes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 volcanoes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 world | case |
| 9 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 volcanoes | amod |
| 10 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 quarters | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 earthquakes | cc |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 big | advmod |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 earthquakes | amod |
| 14 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 volcanoes | conj |
| 15 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 Pacific | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Pacific | det |
| 18 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lie | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ring | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Ring | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Ring | det |
| 22 | Ring | ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lie | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Fire | case |
| 24 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ring | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | three quarters of the world's active volcanoes and big earthquakes | the Pacific | in the Ring of Fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around pacific=Location |
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:12.
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): 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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