Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 16

Moving continents changed climates: Antarctica once had forests, and coal is found under Britain, which lay near the equator about 300 million years ago.

Who acts: Moving continents, Antarctica, Britain · What happens: move, change, have, find, lie · To what, where: climates, forests, coal, Britain, equator

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 (Moving continents, Antarctica, Britain), 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	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 continents	amod
2	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 changed	nsubj
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	climates	climate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 changed	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct
6	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 had	advmod
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	parataxis
9	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
12	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux:pass
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 had	conj
15	under	under	ADP	_	16 Britain	case
16	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lay	nsubj
19	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Britain	acl:relcl
20	near	near	ADP	_	22 equator	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 equator	det
22	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obl
23	about	about	ADV	_	25 million	advmod
24	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 million	compound
25	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 years	nummod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ago	obl:unmarked
27	ago	ago	ADV	_	19 lay	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	change	past	Moving continents	climates			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Patient
3	have	past	Antarctica	forests		once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient
4	find	present · passive		coal	Britain		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	lie	past	Britain		the equator	ago property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near equator=Location

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:16.

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 ×4, 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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