Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 2
As it moves it scrapes the land like giant sandpaper with rocks frozen into its base.
Who acts: Snow · What happens: move, scrape, freeze · To what, where: land, rocks, base
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 (Snow), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 moves | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 moves | nsubj |
| 3 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scrapes | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scrapes | nsubj |
| 5 | scrapes | scrape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scrapes | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 sandpaper | case |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sandpaper | amod |
| 10 | sandpaper | sandpaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 land | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 rocks | case |
| 12 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sandpaper | nmod |
| 13 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rocks | acl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 base | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 base | nmod:poss |
| 16 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 frozen | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scrapes | 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 | move | present | Snow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | scrape | present | Snow | the land | like giant sandpaper with rocks | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument land=Patient | |||
| 3 | freeze | participle | rocks not said here | Snow's base | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:2.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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