Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 8
A glacier is a huge mass of ice that slowly flows downhill under its own weight.
Who acts: glacier, huge mass · What happens: be, flow · To what, where: huge mass, own weight
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 (glacier, huge mass), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 glacier | det |
| 2 | glacier | glacier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mass | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mass | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mass | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mass | amod |
| 6 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ice | case |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mass | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 flows | nsubj |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 flows | advmod |
| 11 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mass | acl:relcl |
| 12 | downhill | downhill | ADV | _ | 11 flows | advmod |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 weight | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 weight | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 weight | amod |
| 16 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flows | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mass | 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 | is a | present | a glacier | a huge mass | of ice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flow | present | a huge mass | glacier's own weight | downhill, slowly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under weight=Location |
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:8.
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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