Coasts and caves, sentence 11
A spit is a long finger of sand or shingle stretching out from the coast into the sea.
Who acts: spit, long finger · What happens: be, stretch out · To what, where: long finger, coast
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 (spit, long finger), 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 spit | det |
| 2 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finger | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 finger | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 finger | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 finger | amod |
| 6 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sand | case |
| 8 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finger | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 shingle | cc |
| 10 | shingle | shingle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sand | conj |
| 11 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 finger | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 stretching | compound:prt |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 coast | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coast | det |
| 15 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretching | obl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretching | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 finger | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a spit | a long finger | of sand or shingle | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stretch out | gerund | a long finger not said here | the coast | into the sea | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from coast=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:055-coasts-and-caves.lesson:11.
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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