Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 10
Glaciers carve wide valleys with flat floors and steep sides, called U-shaped valleys.
Who acts: Glaciers, wide valleys · What happens: carve, call, shape · To what, where: wide valleys, U shaped valleys · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Glaciers and ice ages» 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 (Glaciers, wide valleys), 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 | Glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carve | nsubj |
| 2 | carve | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 valleys | amod |
| 4 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carve | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 floors | case |
| 6 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 floors | amod |
| 7 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 valleys | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sides | cc |
| 9 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sides | amod |
| 10 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 floors | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 valleys | acl |
| 13 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 valleys | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 U | punct |
| 15 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 valleys | amod |
| 16 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 called | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carve | 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 | carve | present | Glaciers | wide valleys | with flat floors and steep sides | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent valley=Patient with floor=Instrument | |||
| 2 | call | participle | wide valleys not said here | U shaped valleys | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent valley=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:054-glaciers-and-ice-ages.lesson:10.
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): 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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