Coasts and caves, sentence 9
Australia's Twelve Apostles are limestone stacks that are slowly collapsing as the sea erodes them.
Who acts: Twelve Apostles, limestone stacks, sea · What happens: be, collapse, erode · To what, where: limestone stacks, stacks
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 (Twelve Apostles, limestone stacks, sea), 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 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Apostles | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Australia | case |
| 3 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Apostles | nummod |
| 4 | Apostles | apostle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 stacks | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stacks | cop |
| 6 | limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stacks | compound |
| 7 | stacks | stack | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 collapsing | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 collapsing | aux |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 collapsing | advmod |
| 11 | collapsing | collapse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stacks | acl:relcl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 erodes | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 erodes | nsubj |
| 15 | erodes | erode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 collapsing | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 erodes | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stacks | 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 | Australia's Twelve Apostles | limestone stacks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | collapse | present · progressive | limestone stacks | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | erode | present | the sea | stacks = stack | tree rules |
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:9.
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): R8-pos-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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