Volcanoes: how and where, sentence 7
Most volcanoes sit along plate boundaries, either where plates pull apart or where one plate dives under another.
Who acts: Most volcanoes, plates, one plate · What happens: sit, pull apart, dive · To what, where: plate boundaries, another
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), 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 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 boundaries | case |
| 5 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boundaries | compound |
| 6 | boundaries | boundary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sit | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pull | punct |
| 8 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 11 pull | cc:preconj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 pull | advmod |
| 10 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pull | nsubj |
| 11 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | conj |
| 12 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 11 pull | advmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 dives | cc |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 dives | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 plate | nummod |
| 16 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dives | nsubj |
| 17 | dives | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pull | conj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 another | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 dives | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | 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 | sit | present | Most volcanoes | plate boundaries | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along boundary=Location | ||||
| 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 |
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:7.
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): 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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