Weathering and erosion, sentence 16
Even great mountains are slowly worn down, and old mountains like those of Scotland were once as high as the Alps.
Who acts: old mountains · What happens: wear down, be · To what, where: great mountains
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 (old mountains), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 mountains | advmod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mountains | amod |
| 3 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 worn | aux:pass |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 worn | advmod |
| 6 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 worn | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 high | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 high | cc |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mountains | amod |
| 11 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 high | nsubj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 mountains | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Scotland | case |
| 15 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 those | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 high | cop |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 high | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 high | advmod |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 worn | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Alps | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Alps | det |
| 22 | Alps | Alps | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 high | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 worn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear down | present · passive | great mountains | slowly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | is | past | old mountains like those | as the Alps; high, 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:052-weathering-and-erosion.lesson:16.
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, R8-pos-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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