Coasts and caves, sentence 12
The Holderness coast in Yorkshire is one of Europe's fastest-eroding coasts, losing about 1-2 metres a year.
Who acts: Holderness coast, fastest eroding coasts · What happens: be, erode, lose · To what, where: one, 1-2 metres
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 (Holderness coast, fastest eroding coasts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coast | det |
| 2 | Holderness | Holderness | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 coast | compound |
| 3 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Yorkshire | case |
| 5 | Yorkshire | Yorkshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 coast | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 coasts | case |
| 9 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 coasts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Europe | case |
| 11 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 coasts | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fastest | punct |
| 13 | eroding | erode | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 coasts | amod |
| 14 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 losing | punct |
| 16 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 coasts | acl |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 1-2 | advmod |
| 18 | 1-2 | 1-2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 metres | nummod |
| 19 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 losing | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 year | det |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 metres | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | 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 | the Holderness coast in Yorkshire | one | of Europe's fastest eroding coasts | tree rules | |||
| 2 | erode | gerund | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | Europe's fastest eroding coasts not said here | 1-2 metres a year | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metre=Eventuality |
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:12.
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, R7-rel-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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