Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 17
The Little Ice Age was much milder than a real ice age, and scientists still discuss its exact dates and causes.
Who acts: Little Ice Age, scientists · What happens: be, discuss · To what, where: exact dates
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 (Little Ice Age, scientists), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Age | det |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Age | amod |
| 3 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Age | compound |
| 4 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 milder | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 milder | cop |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 milder | advmod |
| 7 | milder | mild | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 age | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 age | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 age | amod |
| 11 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 age | compound |
| 12 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 milder | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 discuss | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 discuss | cc |
| 15 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 discuss | nsubj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 discuss | advmod |
| 17 | discuss | discuss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 milder | conj |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dates | nmod:poss |
| 19 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dates | amod |
| 20 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 discuss | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 causes | cc |
| 22 | causes | cause | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dates | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 milder | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Little Ice Age | than a real ice age | mild property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | discuss speech: other | present | scientists | age's exact dates and causes | still | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic |
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:17.
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 ×3. 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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