Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 6
Imagine a boulder as big as a car sitting alone in a field, made of rock found nowhere nearby: ice carried it there.
Who acts: you, boulder, ice · What happens: imagine, sit, make, find, carry · To what, where: boulder, field, rock
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 (you, boulder, ice), 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boulder | det |
| 3 | boulder | boulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boulder | amod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 car | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 car | det |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 big | obl |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 boulder | acl |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 sitting | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 field | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 field | det |
| 13 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 boulder | acl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rock | case |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 rock | acl |
| 19 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 found | advmod |
| 20 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 18 found | advmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 carried | punct |
| 22 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carried | nsubj |
| 23 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Imagine | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carried | obj |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 carried | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | a boulder | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot boulder=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | a boulder not said here | a field | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location | |||
| 3 | make | participle | a boulder not said here | of rock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | find | participle | rock not said here | nearby, nowhere property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | carry | past | ice | boulder | there | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:6.
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, 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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