Coal, oil and gas, sentence 1
When we burn them we release sunlight that ancient plants caught long before the dinosaurs.
Who acts: we, ancient plants · What happens: burn, release, catch · To what, where: millions, sunlight
This is a sentence of the lesson «Coal, oil and gas» 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 (we, ancient plants), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 burn | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 burn | nsubj |
| 3 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 release | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burn | obj |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 release | nsubj |
| 6 | release | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 release | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 caught | obj |
| 9 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plants | amod |
| 10 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 caught | nsubj |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sunlight | acl |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 caught | advmod |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 dinosaurs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dinosaurs | det |
| 15 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 caught | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 release | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present | we | millions = million | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | release | present | we | sunlight | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer sunlight=Source | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | ancient plants | sunlight | before the dinosaurs | long property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
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:059-coal-oil-and-gas.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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