Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 9
The Earth's magnetism is made by hot, liquid iron swirling in its outer core.
Who acts: hot liquid iron · What happens: make, swirl · To what, where: magnetism, outer core
This is a sentence of the lesson «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» of the physics 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 (hot liquid iron), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 magnetism | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Earth | case |
| 4 | magnetism | magnetism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 iron | case |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 iron | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hot | punct |
| 10 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 iron | amod |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 12 | swirling | swirl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 iron | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 core | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 core | nmod:poss |
| 15 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 core | amod |
| 16 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swirling | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | hot liquid iron | the Earth's magnetism | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | swirl | gerund | hot liquid iron not said here | magnetism's outer core | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in core=Location |
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:physics:030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.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): 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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