Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 11
The Atlantic Ocean is a young ocean that started opening about 180 million years ago and is still widening.
Who acts: Atlantic Ocean, young ocean · What happens: be, start, open, widen · To what, where: young ocean
This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving continents: from Pangaea to today» 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 (Atlantic Ocean, young ocean), 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 Ocean | det |
| 2 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ocean | compound |
| 3 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ocean | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ocean | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ocean | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ocean | amod |
| 7 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 started | nsubj |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ocean | acl:relcl |
| 10 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 started | xcomp |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 million | advmod |
| 12 | 180 | 180 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 million | compound |
| 13 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 opening | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 widening | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 widening | aux |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 widening | advmod |
| 19 | widening | widen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 started | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ocean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Atlantic Ocean | a young ocean | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | past | a young ocean | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | open | gerund | a young ocean not said here | ago property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | widen | present · progressive | a young ocean not said here | still | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:043-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today.lesson:11.
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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