Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 15

Diamonds and coal are both made of carbon, but most diamonds formed deep in the Earth long before the land plants that made coal existed.

Who acts: most diamonds, land plants · What happens: make, form, exist · To what, where: Diamonds, Earth, coal

This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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 (most diamonds, land 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	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 coal	cc
3	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Diamonds	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 carbon	case
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 formed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 formed	cc
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 diamonds	amod
12	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 formed	nsubj
13	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
14	deep	deep	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 formed	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 Earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Earth	det
17	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 formed	obl
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 plants	advmod
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 existed	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 plants	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plants	compound
22	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 existed	nsubj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 made	nsubj
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 plants	acl:relcl
25	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
26	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 formed	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	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	make	present · passive		Diamonds and coal		of carbon; both property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	form	past	most diamonds		the Earth	deep property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in earth=Location
3	make	past	the land plants	coal			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coal=Product
4	exist	past	the land plants				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:15.

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 ×4. 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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