Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 14
Scientists predict the continents will join again in about 200-250 million years, though they argue about the exact shape.
Who acts: Scientists, continents · What happens: predict, join, argue
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 (Scientists, continents), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 predict | nsubj |
| 2 | predict | predict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 continents | det |
| 4 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 join | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 join | aux |
| 6 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 predict | ccomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 join | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 million | advmod |
| 10 | 200-250 | 200-250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 million | compound |
| 11 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 join | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 argue | punct |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 argue | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 argue | nsubj |
| 16 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 predict | advcl |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 shape | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shape | det |
| 19 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shape | amod |
| 20 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 argue | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 predict | 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 | predict | present | Scientists | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | join | future | the continents | again; year | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | present | continents = continent | about the exact shape | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about shape=Topic |
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:14.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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