Energy: what makes things happen, sentence 10
Coal, oil and gas are the remains of plants and tiny creatures that caught sunlight millions of years ago.
Who acts: Coal, plants · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: remains, sunlight
This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy: what makes things happen» 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 (Coal, 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 | Coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remains | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 oil | punct |
| 3 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Coal | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gas | cc |
| 5 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Coal | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 remains | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 remains | det |
| 8 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 plants | case |
| 10 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 remains | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 creatures | cc |
| 12 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 creatures | amod |
| 13 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 plants | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 caught | nsubj |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 plants | acl:relcl |
| 16 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | obj |
| 17 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 millions | nmod |
| 20 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 caught | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Coal and oil and gas | the remains | of plants and tiny creatures | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | past | plants and tiny creatures | sunlight | millions of years obl:unmarked; ago property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=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:physics:031-energy-what-makes-things-happen.lesson:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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