Weathering and erosion, sentence 14
In deserts wind blasts sand against rocks and carves strange shapes.
Who acts: wind · What happens: blast, carve · To what, where: sand, deserts, strange shapes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Weathering and erosion» 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 (wind), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 deserts | case |
| 2 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blasts | obl |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blasts | nsubj |
| 4 | blasts | blast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blasts | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 rocks | case |
| 7 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blasts | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carves | cc |
| 9 | carves | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blasts | conj |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shapes | amod |
| 11 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carves | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blasts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blast | present | wind | sand | deserts | against rocks | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sand=Instrument against rock=Patient | ||
| 2 | carve | present | wind not said here | strange shapes | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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:052-weathering-and-erosion.lesson:14.
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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