Volcanoes: how and where, sentence 14
Most of the Earth's volcanic activity happens unseen on the ocean floor along mid-ocean ridges.
Who acts: Most · What happens: happen · To what, where: ocean floor
This is a sentence of the lesson «Volcanoes: how and where» 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 (Most), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 activity | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Earth | det |
| 4 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 activity | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Earth | case |
| 6 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 activity | amod |
| 7 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
| 8 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 happens | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 12 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 floor | compound |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happens | obl |
| 14 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 ridges | case |
| 15 | mid-ocean | mid-ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ridges | compound |
| 16 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 happens | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happens | 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 | happen | present | Most of the Earth's volcanic activity | the ocean floor | along mid-ocean ridges; unseen property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
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:046-volcanoes-how-and-where.lesson:14.
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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