Earthquakes, sentence 0
Rocks along a crack in the crust, a fault, want to slide past each other but are stuck; the strain builds up for years until suddenly they slip, and the jolt shakes the ground: that is an earthquake.
Who acts: Rocks, strain, jolt, that · What happens: want, slide, be, build up, slip, shake · To what, where: each, ground, earthquake
This is a sentence of the lesson «Earthquakes» 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 (Rocks, strain, jolt, that), 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 | Rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 want | nsubj |
| 2 | along | along | ADP | _ | 4 crack | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crack | det |
| 4 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rocks | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 crust | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crust | det |
| 7 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crack | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fault | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fault | det |
| 10 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rocks | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rocks | punct |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 slide | mark |
| 14 | slide | slide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 want | xcomp |
| 15 | past | past | ADP | _ | 16 each | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 14 slide | obl |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 each | fixed |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 stuck | cc |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 stuck | cop |
| 20 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 want | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 builds | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 strain | det |
| 23 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 builds | nsubj |
| 24 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 stuck | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 builds | compound:prt |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 years | case |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 builds | obl |
| 28 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 slip | mark |
| 29 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 31 slip | advmod |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 slip | nsubj |
| 31 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 builds | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 shakes | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 shakes | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 jolt | det |
| 35 | jolt | jolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shakes | nsubj |
| 36 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 want | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ground | det |
| 38 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shakes | obj |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 earthquake | punct |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 earthquake | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 earthquake | cop |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 earthquake | det |
| 43 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shakes | parataxis |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 want | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Rocks along a crack in the crust and a fault | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | slide not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rocks along a crack in the crust and a fault not said here | each | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past each=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Rocks along a crack in the crust and a fault not said here | stuck property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | build up | present | the strain | year | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | slip | present | Rocks = rock | suddenly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | shake | present | the jolt | the ground | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ground=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | that | a earthquake | tree rules |
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:044-earthquakes.lesson:0.
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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