Volcanoes: how and where, sentence 8
Some volcanoes, like Hawaii's, are in the middle of a plate above a hotspot, a plume of hot rock rising from deep in the mantle.
Who acts: volcanoes, plume · What happens: be, rise · To what, where: middle, mantle
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 (volcanoes, plume), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 volcanoes | det |
| 2 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 middle | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hawaii | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 Hawaii | case |
| 5 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 volcanoes | nmod |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Hawaii | case |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 volcanoes | punct |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 middle | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 middle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 middle | det |
| 11 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 plate | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 plate | det |
| 14 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 middle | nmod |
| 15 | above | above | ADP | _ | 17 hotspot | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hotspot | det |
| 17 | hotspot | hotspot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plate | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 plume | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 plume | det |
| 20 | plume | plume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 middle | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rock | case |
| 22 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rock | amod |
| 23 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plume | nmod |
| 24 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 plume | acl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 mantle | case |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 29 mantle | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 mantle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mantle | det |
| 29 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rising | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 middle | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some volcanoes like Hawaii | the middle | of a plate above a hotspot | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rise | gerund | a plume of hot rock not said here | the mantle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mantle=Initial_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:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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