Coasts and caves, sentence 15
Rising seas caused by global warming make coastal erosion and flooding worse.
Who acts: Rising seas · What happens: rise, cause, make · To what, where: Rising seas, coastal erosion
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 (Rising seas), 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 | Rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 seas | amod |
| 2 | seas | seas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | nsubj |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seas | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 warming | case |
| 5 | global | global | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warming | amod |
| 6 | warming | warming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obl |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 erosion | amod |
| 9 | erosion | erosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flooding | cc |
| 11 | flooding | flooding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 erosion | conj |
| 12 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 make | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | cause | participle | Rising seas not said here | by global warming | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | make | present | Rising seas | coastal erosion and flooding | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset erosion=Product |
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:15.
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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