Coasts and caves, sentence 7
Coasts with hard and soft rock form headlands and bays, since soft rock wears back faster.
Who acts: Coasts, soft rock · What happens: form, wear · To what, where: headlands
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 (Coasts, 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 | Coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 form | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 rock | case |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rock | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 soft | cc |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hard | conj |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Coasts | nmod |
| 7 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | headlands | headland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 form | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bays | cc |
| 10 | bays | bay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 headlands | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 form | punct |
| 12 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 15 wears | mark |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rock | amod |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wears | nsubj |
| 15 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 form | advcl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 faster | advmod |
| 17 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 wears | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 form | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | Coasts with hard rock | headlands and bays | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location headland=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wear | present | soft rock | fast property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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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