Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 2

Look at a world map on your bedroom wall and slide South America over to Africa: the bulge of Brazil tucks into the curve of West Africa like two jigsaw pieces.

Who acts: you, bulge · What happens: look, slide, tuck · To what, where: South America, curve

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 (you, bulge), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 map	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 map	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 map	compound
5	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 wall	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wall	nmod:poss
8	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wall	compound
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slide	cc
11	slide	slide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
12	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 America	compound
13	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 slide	obj
14	over	over	ADV	_	11 slide	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Africa	case
16	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 over	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 tucks	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bulge	det
19	bulge	bulge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tucks	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Brazil	case
21	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 bulge	nmod
22	tucks	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 curve	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 curve	det
25	curve	curve	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tucks	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 Africa	case
27	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Africa	compound
28	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 curve	nmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 pieces	case
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 pieces	nummod
31	jigsaw	jigsaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pieces	compound
32	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tucks	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			on your bedroom wall; at a world map	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at map=Theme
2	slide	infinitive	you not said here	South America		over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent america=Agent
3	tuck	present	the bulge of Brazil		the curve of West Africa	like two jigsaw pieces	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into curve=Destination

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:2.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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