Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 2

Yet millions of people live on volcanoes' slopes on purpose, because volcanic ash weathers into some of the richest farming soil on Earth, and the heat underground can warm homes and make electricity.

Who acts: millions, volcanic ash, heat · What happens: live, weather, warm, make · To what, where: slopes, some, homes, electricity

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 (millions, volcanic ash, heat), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	5 live	cc
2	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 millions	nmod
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 slopes	case
7	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slopes	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 volcanoes	case
9	slopes	slope	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 purpose	case
11	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weathers	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 weathers	mark
14	volcanic	volcanic	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ash	compound
15	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 weathers	nsubj
16	weathers	weather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 live	advcl
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 some	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 weathers	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 soil	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 soil	det
21	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 soil	amod
22	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 soil	compound
23	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 some	nmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 Earth	case
25	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 soil	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 warm	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 heat	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heat	det
29	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 warm	nsubj
30	underground	underground	ADV	_	29 heat	advmod
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 warm	aux
32	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 weathers	conj
33	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 warm	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 make	cc
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 warm	conj
36	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	millions of people		volcanoes's slopes	on purpose	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on slope=Location
2	weather	present	volcanic ash		some		tree rules
3	warm	can	the heat	homes			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent home=Patient
4	make	infinitive	the heat not said here	electricity			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product

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:2.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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