Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 6
Pangaea was surrounded by one giant ocean called Panthalassa.
Who acts: one giant ocean · What happens: surround, call · To what, where: Pangaea, one giant ocean · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one giant ocean), 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 | Pangaea | Pangaea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 3 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 ocean | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ocean | nummod |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ocean | amod |
| 7 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ocean | acl |
| 9 | Panthalassa | Panthalassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | past · passive | one giant ocean | Pangaea | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | one giant ocean not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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:6.
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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