Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 13

Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with volcanic heat close to the surface, and it uses this heat to make electricity and to heat almost all its homes.

Who acts: Iceland, surface · What happens: sit, use, make, heat · To what, where: Mid-Atlantic Ridge, heat, electricity, homes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» 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 (Iceland, surface), 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	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 Ridge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ridge	det
5	Mid-Atlantic	Mid-Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ridge	compound
6	Ridge	ridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heat	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 heat	case
9	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heat	amod
10	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heat	amod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 surface	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 surface	det
14	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 close	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 uses	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 uses	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 uses	nsubj
18	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	conj
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 heat	det
20	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 uses	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 uses	advcl
23	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heat	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 heat	mark
26	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 make	conj
27	almost	almost	ADV	_	28 all	advmod
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 homes	det:predet
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 homes	nmod:poss
30	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 heat	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Iceland		the Mid-Atlantic Ridge	with volcanic heat	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ridge=Location
2	use	present	surface	this heat			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	surface not said here	electricity			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product
4	heat	to-infinitive	surface not said here	surface's homes			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent home=Patient

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:047-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes.lesson:13.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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