Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 3

The same fossil reptiles turn up on continents now oceans apart, and Britain has coal from tropical swamps and Antarctica has fossil forests, because those lands once lay somewhere else.

Who acts: same fossil reptiles, Britain, Antarctica, lands · What happens: turn up, have, lay · To what, where: continents, coal, tropical swamps, fossil forests

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 (same fossil reptiles, Britain, Antarctica, lands), 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	4 reptiles	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reptiles	amod
3	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reptiles	compound
4	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	nsubj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 turn	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 continents	case
8	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	obl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 oceans	advmod
10	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 continents	nmod
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 has	cc
14	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	conj
16	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 swamps	case
18	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 swamps	amod
19	swamps	swamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 coal	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 has	cc
21	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 has	conj
23	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forests	compound
24	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 has	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 lay	mark
27	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 lands	det
28	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lay	nsubj
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 lay	advmod
30	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	advcl
31	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 lay	advmod
32	else	else	ADV	_	31 somewhere	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn up	present	the same fossil reptiles		continents oceans	apart property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=Location
2	have	present	Britain	coal	tropical swamps		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Patient
3	have	present	Antarctica	fossil forests			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient
4	lay	past	that lands			once, somewhere property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:3.

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 ×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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