Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 15
Glaciers dropped huge boulders, called erratics, far from the rocks they came from.
Who acts: Glaciers, huge boulders, rocks · What happens: drop, call, come · To what, where: huge boulders, rocks, erratics · 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, huge boulders, rocks), 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 dropped | nsubj |
| 2 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boulders | amod |
| 4 | boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dropped | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 boulders | acl |
| 7 | erratics | erratic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rocks | punct |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 rocks | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 rocks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rocks | det |
| 12 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dropped | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 came | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | Glaciers | huge boulders | the rocks | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boulder=Theme from rock=Destination | |||
| 2 | call | participle | huge boulders not said here | erratics | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | rocks = rock | the rocks not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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