Weathering and erosion, sentence 6
Given millions of years, this wins against anything: the old mountains of Scotland were once as high as the Alps.
Who acts: this, old mountains · What happens: give, win, be · To what, where: Given millions
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 (this, 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 | Given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 millions | amod |
| 2 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wins | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 millions | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wins | punct |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 wins | nsubj |
| 7 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 anything | case |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 wins | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 wins | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountains | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mountains | amod |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 high | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Scotland | case |
| 15 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mountains | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 high | cop |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | _ | 19 high | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 high | advmod |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wins | parataxis |
| 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 | _ | 7 wins | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | win | present | this | Given millions of years | against anything | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is | past | the old mountains of Scotland | 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:6.
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): 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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