Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 4

The film keeps playing: the Atlantic is still widening, Africa is creeping into Europe, and in a couple of hundred million years the continents will probably meet again, though scientists argue about the shape.

Who acts: film, Atlantic, Africa, continents, scientists · What happens: keep, play, widen, creep, meet, argue · To what, where: Europe

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 (film, Atlantic, Africa, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 film	det
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 widening	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Atlantic	det
7	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 widening	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 widening	aux
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 widening	advmod
10	widening	widen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 playing	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 creeping	punct
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 creeping	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 creeping	aux
14	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 keeps	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 Europe	case
16	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 creeping	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 couple	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 couple	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 couple	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 couple	det
21	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 creeping	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 years	case
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 million	compound
24	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 years	nummod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 couple	nmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 continents	det
27	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 meet	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 meet	aux
29	probably	probably	ADV	_	30 meet	advmod
30	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 creeping	advcl
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 meet	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 argue	punct
33	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 argue	mark
34	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 argue	nsubj
35	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 meet	advcl
36	about	about	ADP	_	38 shape	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shape	det
38	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 argue	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the film				tree rules
2	play	gerund	the film not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	widen	present · progressive	the Atlantic		still		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	creep	present · progressive	Africa	Europe		in a couple of million years	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into europe=Destination
5	meet	future	the continents		again	probably property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	argue speech: disagree	present	scientists			about the 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:4.

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.

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