Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 15

The 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland grounded most flights across Europe for about a week, because volcanic ash can melt inside jet engines and stop them.

Who acts: 2010 eruption, volcanic ash, Eyjafjallajökull · What happens: ground, melt, stop, erupt · To what, where: most flights, Europe, jet engines, eruptions

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 (2010 eruption, volcanic ash, Eyjafjallajökull), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eruption	det
2	2010	2010	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 eruption	nummod
3	eruption	eruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grounded	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Eyjafjallajökull	case
5	Eyjafjallajökull	Eyjafjallajökull	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eruption	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Iceland	case
7	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Eyjafjallajökull	nmod
8	grounded	ground	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 flights	amod
10	flights	flight	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grounded	obj
11	across	across	ADP	_	12 Europe	case
12	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 flights	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 week	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	16 week	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 week	det
16	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grounded	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 melt	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 melt	mark
19	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ash	amod
20	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 melt	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 melt	aux
22	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grounded	advcl
23	inside	inside	ADP	_	25 engines	case
24	jet	jet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 engines	compound
25	engines	engine	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 melt	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stop	cc
27	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 melt	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stop	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grounded	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	ground	past	the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland	most flights	Europe	week	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme flight=Destination
2	melt	can	volcanic ash		jet engines		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stop	infinitive	volcanic ash not said here	eruptions = eruption			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality
4	erupt		Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland				nom eruption «event intransitive»: of=agent

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:15.

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. 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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