Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 14
In the ice age, sea level was about 120 metres lower, so Britain was joined to Europe by a land called Doggerland.
Who acts: sea level, land · What happens: be, join, call · To what, where: ice age, Britain, Europe, land · 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 (sea level, land), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 age | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 age | det |
| 3 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 age | compound |
| 4 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lower | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lower | punct |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 level | compound |
| 7 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lower | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lower | cop |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 120 | advmod |
| 10 | 120 | 120 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 metres | nummod |
| 11 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lower | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 joined | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 joined | advmod |
| 15 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 joined | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 joined | aux:pass |
| 17 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lower | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Europe | case |
| 19 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 joined | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joined | obl |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 land | acl |
| 24 | Doggerland | Doggerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 called | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lower | 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 | is | past | sea level | in the ice age | 120 metres obl:unmarked; low property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | join | past · passive | a land | Britain | Europe | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to europe=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a land not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:14.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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