Coasts and caves, sentence 1
Where hard and soft rock lie side by side, the soft rock wears back into bays and the hard rock sticks out as headlands.
Who acts: hard rock, soft rock · What happens: lie, wear back, stick out · To what, where: side, bays
This is a sentence of the lesson «Coasts and caves» 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 (hard rock, soft rock), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 lie | advmod |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rock | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 hard | cc |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hard | conj |
| 5 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | nsubj |
| 6 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wears | advcl |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | fixed |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wears | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rock | det |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rock | amod |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wears | nsubj |
| 14 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 wears | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 bays | case |
| 17 | bays | bay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wears | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sticks | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rock | det |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rock | amod |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sticks | nsubj |
| 22 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wears | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 sticks | compound:prt |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 headlands | case |
| 25 | headlands | headland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sticks | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wears | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | hard rock | side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wear back | present | the soft rock | bays | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stick out | present | the hard rock | as headlands | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:055-coasts-and-caves.lesson:1.
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. 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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