Volcanoes: how and where, sentence 9

As the plate slides over a hotspot, a chain of volcanoes forms, and the Hawaiian islands get older the further they are from the hotspot.

Who acts: plate, chain, Hawaiian islands, plates · What happens: slide, form, get, be · To what, where: 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 (plate, chain, Hawaiian islands, plates), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 slides	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plate	det
3	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slides	nsubj
4	slides	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 forms	advcl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 hotspot	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hotspot	det
7	hotspot	hotspot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slides	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forms	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 chain	det
10	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forms	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 volcanoes	case
12	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chain	nmod
13	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 get	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 islands	det
17	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 islands	amod
18	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 get	nsubj
19	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 forms	conj
20	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 get	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 further	det
22	further	further	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 hotspot	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hotspot	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hotspot	cop
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 hotspot	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hotspot	det
27	hotspot	hotspot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 forms	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	slide	present	the plate	a hotspot		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hotspot=Trajectory
2	form	present	a chain of volcanoes			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	present	the Hawaiian islands		old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	plates = plate	the hotspot	further property	tree rules

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:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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