Weathering and erosion, sentence 3
The same thing happens in the cracks of rocks on a frosty mountain, night after night.
Who acts: same thing · What happens: happen · To what, where: cracks
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 (same thing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 4 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cracks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cracks | det |
| 7 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happens | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rocks | case |
| 9 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cracks | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 12 | frosty | frosty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mountain | amod |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rocks | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happens | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 night | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | the same thing | the cracks of rocks on a frosty mountain | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in crack=Location |
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:3.
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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