Deep time and the story of life, sentence 4
By measuring how much of each is in a rock, scientists can work out its age.
Who acts: scientists · What happens: measure, be, work out · To what, where: much, age
This is a sentence of the lesson «Deep time and the story of life» 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 (scientists), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 measuring | mark |
| 2 | measuring | measure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 work | advcl |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 measuring | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rock | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 rock | det |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rock | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 rock | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 much | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 measuring | punct |
| 12 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 work | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 work | aux |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 work | compound:prt |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 age | nmod:poss |
| 17 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 work | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | gerund | scientists not said here | much | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | ||||
| 2 | is | present | of each rock | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work out | can | scientists | rock's age | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic |
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:058-deep-time-and-the-story-of-life.lesson:4.
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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