Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 4
Diamonds reach us only because rare volcanic pipes once shot them up to the surface fast.
Who acts: Diamonds, rare volcanic pipes · What happens: reach, shot up · To what, where: us, atoms
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» 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 (Diamonds, rare volcanic pipes), 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 | Diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reach | nsubj |
| 2 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 reach | obj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 reach | advmod |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 shot | mark |
| 6 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pipes | amod |
| 7 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pipes | amod |
| 8 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shot | nsubj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 shot | advmod |
| 10 | shot | shot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reach | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shot | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 shot | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 surface | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 surface | det |
| 15 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shot | obl |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 10 shot | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | Diamonds | us | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shot up | past | rare volcanic pipes | atoms = atom | to the surface; fast, once property | 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:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.lesson:4.
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): no change. 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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