Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 19
Mountain glaciers feed rivers that hundreds of millions of people depend on, especially in Asia.
Who acts: Mountain glaciers, hundreds · What happens: feed, depend on · To what, where: rivers, Asia
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 (Mountain glaciers, hundreds), 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 | Mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glaciers | compound |
| 2 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feed | nsubj |
| 3 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feed | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 depend | obl |
| 6 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 depend | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 millions | case |
| 8 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hundreds | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 millions | nmod |
| 11 | depend | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rivers | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 depend | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Asia | punct |
| 14 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 16 Asia | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Asia | case |
| 16 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 depend | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | Mountain glaciers | rivers | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | depend on | present | hundreds of millions of people | rivers | Asia | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: 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:19.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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