Plate tectonics, sentence 6
Plates move about 2-10 cm a year, roughly as fast as your fingernails grow.
Who acts: Plates, fingernails · What happens: move about, grow · To what, where: 2-10 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 (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 | Plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 move | nsubj |
| 2 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 2-10 | advmod |
| 4 | 2-10 | 2-10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 cm | nummod |
| 5 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 move | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 move | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fast | punct |
| 9 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 11 fast | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 fast | advmod |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 move | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 grow | mark |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fingernails | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fingernails | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 grow | nsubj |
| 15 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fast | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 move | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move about | present | Plates | 2-10 cm | year | fast property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme cm=Result | ||
| 2 | grow | present | your fingernails | 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:6.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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