Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 8
Pangaea began to break up about 200 million years ago, first into Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south.
Who acts: Pangaea · What happens: begin, break up
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 (Pangaea), 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 | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 break | mark |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 break | compound:prt |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 million | advmod |
| 7 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 million | compound |
| 8 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 break | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 first | punct |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 break | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 Laurasia | case |
| 14 | Laurasia | Laurasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 first | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 north | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 north | det |
| 17 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Laurasia | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Gondwana | cc |
| 19 | Gondwana | Gondwana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 north | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 south | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 south | det |
| 22 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 north | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Pangaea | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | break up | to-infinitive | Pangaea not said here | ago, first property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:8.
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 ×3. 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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