Plate tectonics, sentence 5
The lithosphere is broken into about 15 large plates and many smaller ones that fit together like a cracked jigsaw.
Who acts: many smaller ones · What happens: break, fit together, crack · To what, where: lithosphere, 15 large plates
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 (many smaller ones), 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 lithosphere | det |
| 2 | lithosphere | lithosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux:pass |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 plates | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 15 | advmod |
| 7 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 plates | nummod |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plates | amod |
| 9 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 broken | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ones | cc |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 12 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 plates | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fit | nsubj |
| 15 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ones | acl:relcl |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 fit | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 jigsaw | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 jigsaw | det |
| 19 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 jigsaw | amod |
| 20 | jigsaw | jigsaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fit | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broken | 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 | break | present · passive | the lithosphere | into 15 large plates and many smaller ones result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into plate=Result | ||||
| 2 | fit together | present | many smaller ones | like a cracked jigsaw; together property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | crack | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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:5.
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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