Plate tectonics, sentence 7

The biggest force moving plates is slab pull: old, cold ocean plate is heavy and sinks into the mantle, dragging the rest behind it.

Who acts: biggest force, old cold ocean plate · What happens: move, be, sink, drag · To what, where: plates, slab pull, mantle, rest, force

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 (biggest force, old cold ocean plate), 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	3 force	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 force	amod
3	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pull	nsubj
4	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 force	acl
5	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 moving	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pull	cop
7	slab	slab	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pull	compound
8	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 heavy	punct
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plate	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plate	amod
13	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plate	compound
14	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heavy	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 heavy	cop
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pull	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sinks	cc
18	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 heavy	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 mantle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mantle	det
21	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sinks	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dragging	punct
23	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sinks	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rest	det
25	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dragging	obj
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dragging	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pull	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	gerund	the biggest force not said here	plates			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=Theme
2	is a	present	the biggest force	slab pull			tree rules
3	is	present	old cold ocean plate			heavy property	tree rules
4	sink	present	old cold ocean plate not said here		the mantle		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	drag	gerund	old cold ocean plate not said here	the rest	force		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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:7.

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. 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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