Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 3

It turns a narrow V-shaped river valley into a wide U-shaped valley with a flat floor and steep sides; when the sea floods one, we get a fjord, like the ones in Norway.

Who acts: Snow, sea, we · What happens: turn, shape, flood, get · To what, where: narrow shaped river valley, wide U shaped valley, one, fjord

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, sea, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 valley	det
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 valley	amod
5	V	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shaped	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 V	punct
7	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 valley	amod
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 valley	compound
9	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	16 valley	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 valley	det
12	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 valley	amod
13	U	U	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 valley	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 U	punct
15	shaped	shaped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 valley	amod
16	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 floor	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 floor	det
19	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 floor	amod
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 valley	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sides	cc
22	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sides	amod
23	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 floor	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 floods	punct
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 floods	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sea	det
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 floods	nsubj
28	floods	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 get	advcl
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 floods	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 get	nsubj
32	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turns	parataxis
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 fjord	det
34	fjord	fjord	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 ones	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ones	det
38	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fjord	nmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 Norway	case
40	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 ones	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Snow	a narrow shaped river valley	a wide U shaped valley with a flat floor and steep sides		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent valley=Theme into valley=Trajectory
2	shape	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	flood	present	the sea	one			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	get	present	we	a fjord		like the ones in Norway	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fjord=Stimulus

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:3.

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, R8-pos-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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