Coasts and caves, sentence 13
Most big caves form in limestone, which slightly acidic rain slowly dissolves.
Who acts: Most big caves, acidic rain · What happens: form, dissolve · To what, where: limestone
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 (Most big caves, acidic rain), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 caves | amod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caves | amod |
| 3 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 form | nsubj |
| 4 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 limestone | case |
| 6 | limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 form | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dissolves | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 dissolves | obj |
| 9 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 10 acidic | advmod |
| 10 | acidic | acidic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rain | amod |
| 11 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dissolves | nsubj |
| 12 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 13 dissolves | advmod |
| 13 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 limestone | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 form | 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 | form | present | Most big caves | limestone | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in limestone=Location | ||||
| 2 | dissolve | present | acidic rain | limestone | slowly property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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:13.
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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