Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 13
Pangaea was not the first supercontinent: earlier ones such as Rodinia, about 1 billion years ago, came together and split too.
Who acts: Pangaea, earlier ones · What happens: not be, come together, split · To what, where: first supercontinent
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 (Pangaea, earlier 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 | Pangaea | Pangaea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 supercontinent | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 supercontinent | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 supercontinent | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 supercontinent | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 supercontinent | amod |
| 6 | supercontinent | supercontinent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 ones | punct |
| 8 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | nsubj |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 Rodinia | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | Rodinia | Rodinia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ones | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 years | punct |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 billion | advmod |
| 15 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 billion | compound |
| 16 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 years | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ago | punct |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 supercontinent | parataxis |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 split | cc |
| 23 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 split | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 supercontinent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Pangaea | the first supercontinent | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come together | past | earlier ones such Rodinia | year | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | split | past | earlier ones such Rodinia not said here | vn break-45.1 «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:13.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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