The Earth as a planet, sentence 13
The Earth is the only planet known to have plate tectonics: the crust is broken into plates that slowly move.
Who acts: Earth, plates · What happens: be, know, have, break, move · To what, where: only planet, plate tectonics, crust, plates
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Earth as a planet» of the space 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 (Earth, plates), 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 | 6 planet | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 planet | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 planet | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 planet | amod |
| 6 | planet | planet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 planet | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 known | xcomp |
| 10 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tectonics | compound |
| 11 | tectonics | tectonic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crust | det |
| 14 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux:pass |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 planet | parataxis |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 plates | case |
| 18 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 broken | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 move | nsubj |
| 20 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 21 move | advmod |
| 21 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 plates | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 planet | 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 | the Earth | the only planet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | the only planet not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | plate tectonics | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tectonic=Patient | |||||
| 4 | break | present · passive | the crust | into plates result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into plate=Result | ||||
| 5 | move | present | plates | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:space:005-the-earth-as-a-planet.lesson:13.
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): R8-pos-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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