Volcanoes: how and where, sentence 4
Most volcanic activity happens unseen on the ocean floor, along the mid-ocean ridges where new crust is made.
Who acts: Most volcanic activity · What happens: happen, make · To what, where: ocean floor, new crust
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 volcanic activity), 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 | 3 activity | amod |
| 2 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 activity | amod |
| 3 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 4 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 happens | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 floor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 floor | det |
| 8 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 floor | compound |
| 9 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happens | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ridges | punct |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 ridges | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ridges | det |
| 13 | mid-ocean | mid-ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ridges | compound |
| 14 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happens | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 made | advmod |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crust | amod |
| 17 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ridges | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Most volcanic activity | the ocean floor | along the mid-ocean ridges; unseen property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location | |||
| 2 | make | present · passive | new crust | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:4.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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