Weathering and erosion, sentence 5
Then rivers, wind, ice and gravity carry the pieces off, and drop them when they slow down.
Who acts: rivers · What happens: carry off, drop, slow down · To what, where: pieces
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 (rivers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 carry | advmod |
| 2 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wind | punct |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rivers | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ice | punct |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rivers | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gravity | cc |
| 8 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rivers | conj |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pieces | det |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 carry | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drop | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drop | cc |
| 15 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 carry | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drop | obj |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 slow | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 slow | nsubj |
| 19 | slow | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 drop | advcl |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 slow | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | present | rivers and wind and ice and gravity | the pieces | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | drop | present | rivers and wind and ice and gravity not said here | pieces = piece | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slow down | present | rivers = river | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:5.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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