The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 11

Ben Nevis in Scotland is the highest mountain in the UK at 1,345 metres, Yr Wyddfa, also called Snowdon, is the highest in Wales at 1,085 metres, and Scafell Pike is the highest in England at 978 metres; the mountains are in the north and west, where the rocks are hard and old and wear away slowly, while the south-east is softer, lower land.

Who acts: Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, mountains, rocks, south east · What happens: be, call, wear away · To what, where: highest mountain, Wyddfa, Wales, England, north · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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 (Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, mountains, rocks), 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	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nevis	compound
2	Nevis	Nevis	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	8 mountain	case
4	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mountain	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
7	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 mountain	amod
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 UK	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 UK	det
11	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 metres	case
13	1,345	1,345	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 metres	nummod
14	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mountain	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Wyddfa	punct
16	Yr	year	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	17 Wyddfa	nmod:desc
17	Wyddfa	Wyddfa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nevis	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 called	punct
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 called	advmod
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 Wyddfa	acl
21	Snowdon	Snowdon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nevis	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 highest	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 highest	det
25	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 mountain	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 Wales	case
27	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 highest	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 metres	case
29	1,085	1,085	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 metres	nummod
30	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 highest	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 highest	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 highest	cc
33	Scafell	Scafell	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Pike	compound
34	Pike	Pike	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 highest	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 highest	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 highest	det
37	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 highest	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 England	case
39	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 highest	obl
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 metres	case
41	978	978	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	42 metres	nummod
42	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 highest	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 north	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 mountains	det
45	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 north	nsubj
46	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 north	cop
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 north	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 north	det
49	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	parataxis
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 west	cc
51	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 north	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 hard	punct
53	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	57 hard	advmod
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 rocks	det
55	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 hard	nsubj
56	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 hard	cop
57	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 north	acl:relcl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 old	cc
59	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 hard	conj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 wear	cc
61	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 hard	conj
62	away	away	ADV	_	61 wear	advmod
63	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	61 wear	advmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 softer	punct
65	while	while	SCONJ	_	71 softer	mark
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 east	det
67	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 east	compound
68	-	-	PUNCT	_	67 south	punct
69	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 softer	nsubj
70	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	71 softer	cop
71	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	49 north	advcl
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 land	punct
73	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	74 land	amod
74	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 softer	obl
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mountain	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ben Nevis and Wyddfa Yr		the highest mountain	in the UK; at 1,345 metres	tree rules
2	call	participle		Wyddfa Yr not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Ben Nevis and Wyddfa Yr not said here		Wales	at 1,085 metres; high property	tree rules
4	is	present	Scafell Pike		England	at 978 metres; high property	tree rules
5	is	present	the mountains		the north and west		tree rules
6	is	present	the rocks			hard property	tree rules
7	be		the rocks not said here				tree rules
8	wear away	present	the rocks not said here			away, slowly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
9	is	present	the south east			lower land obl; soft property	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.

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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): R1-cc-next ×4, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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