Volcanoes: how and where, sentence 3

Most volcanoes sit where plates pull apart or where one plate dives under another, and some, like Hawaii's, sit over a hotspot in the middle of a plate.

Who acts: Most volcanoes, plates, one plate, some · What happens: sit, pull apart, dive · To what, where: another, hotspot

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 volcanoes, plates, one plate, some), 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	2 volcanoes	amod
2	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sit	nsubj
3	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 pull	advmod
5	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pull	nsubj
6	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	advcl
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	6 pull	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 dives	cc
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 dives	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 plate	nummod
11	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dives	nsubj
12	dives	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pull	conj
13	under	under	ADP	_	14 another	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 dives	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sit	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 some	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 sit	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sit	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 Hawaii	case
20	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 some	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Hawaii	case
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sit	punct
23	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	conj
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 hotspot	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hotspot	det
26	hotspot	hotspot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sit	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 middle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 middle	det
29	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hotspot	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 plate	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 plate	det
32	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 middle	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Most volcanoes			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull apart	present	plates		apart property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dive	present	one plate	another		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under another=Location
4	sit	present	some	a hotspot in the middle of a plate		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hotspot=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:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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