Plate tectonics, sentence 15
Today satellites measure plate movement directly: GPS stations show Europe and North America moving apart about 2.5 cm a year.
Who acts: satellites, GPS stations, Europe · What happens: measure, show, move · To what, where: plate movement, 2.5 cm
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 (satellites, GPS stations, Europe), 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 | Today | today | ADV | _ | 3 measure | advmod |
| 2 | satellites | satellite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 measure | nsubj |
| 3 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 movement | compound |
| 5 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 measure | obj |
| 6 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 3 measure | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 measure | punct |
| 8 | GPS | GPS | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stations | compound |
| 9 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 show | nsubj |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 measure | parataxis |
| 11 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 moving | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 America | cc |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 America | compound |
| 14 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Europe | conj |
| 15 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 show | xcomp |
| 16 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 15 moving | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 2.5 | advmod |
| 18 | 2.5 | 2.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 cm | nummod |
| 19 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 moving | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 year | det |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cm | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 measure | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present | satellites | plate movement | directly, today property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme movement=Value | |||
| 2 | show | present | GPS stations | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | move | gerund | Europe and North America | 2.5 cm a year | apart property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:15.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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