Continents and oceans, sentence 13
Oceans cover about 71 percent of the Earth's surface, so less than a third is land.
Who acts: Oceans, third · What happens: cover, be · To what, where: 71 percent
This is a sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» 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 (Oceans, third), 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 | Oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cover | nsubj |
| 2 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 71 | advmod |
| 4 | 71 | 71 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 percent | nummod |
| 5 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cover | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 surface | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Earth | det |
| 8 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 surface | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Earth | case |
| 10 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 percent | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 less | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 less | advmod |
| 13 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 cover | advcl |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 third | det |
| 16 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 land | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 land | cop |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 less | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cover | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | Oceans | 71 percent of the Earth's surface | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme percent=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a third | than land | 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:005-continents-and-oceans.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): R5-strong ×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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