Igneous rocks and the rock cycle, sentence 2
Think of a granite kitchen worktop with its speckles of grey, pink and black; each speckle is a crystal that grew slowly for thousands of years kilometres underground.
Who acts: you, speckle, crystal · What happens: think, be, grow · To what, where: crystal
This is a sentence of the lesson «Igneous rocks and the rock cycle» 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 (you, speckle, crystal), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 worktop | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 worktop | det |
| 4 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worktop | compound |
| 5 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worktop | compound |
| 6 | worktop | worktop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 speckles | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 speckles | nmod:poss |
| 9 | speckles | speckle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 worktop | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 grey | case |
| 11 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speckles | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pink | punct |
| 13 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grey | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 black | cc |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pink | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 speckle | det |
| 18 | speckle | speckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crystal | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 crystal | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 crystal | det |
| 21 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 crystal | acl:relcl |
| 24 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 23 grew | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 thousands | case |
| 26 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 grew | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 years | case |
| 28 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 thousands | nmod |
| 29 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 underground | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 23 grew | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a granite kitchen worktop with worktop's speckles of grey | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | each speckle | a crystal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | a crystal | for thousands of years; slowly, underground property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:048-igneous-rocks-and-the-rock-cycle.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. 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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