Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 4
For the last 2.6 million years Earth has swung between cold glacial periods and warmer interglacials.
Who acts: Earth · What happens: swing · To what, where: cold glacial periods
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 (Earth), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 years | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 4 | 2.6 | 2.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 million | compound |
| 5 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swung | obl |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 swung | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 swung | aux |
| 9 | swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 periods | case |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 periods | amod |
| 12 | glacial | glacial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 periods | amod |
| 13 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swung | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 interglacials | cc |
| 15 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 interglacials | amod |
| 16 | interglacials | interglacial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 periods | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | present · perfect | Earth | cold glacial periods and warmer interglacials | year | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme between period=Trajectory |
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:4.
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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