Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 13
About 20,000 years ago ice sheets covered much of Britain, Scandinavia and northern North America.
Who acts: ice sheets · What happens: cover · To what, where: much
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 (ice sheets), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 20,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 20,000 | 20000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 covered | advmod |
| 5 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sheets | compound |
| 6 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 covered | nsubj |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 covered | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Britain | case |
| 10 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 much | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Scandinavia | punct |
| 12 | Scandinavia | Scandinavia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Britain | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 America | cc |
| 14 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 America | amod |
| 15 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 America | compound |
| 16 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Britain | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 covered | 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 | cover | past | ice sheets | much of Britain and Scandinavia and northern North America | ago property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Destination |
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:13.
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 ×2. 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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