Mars, sentence 10
Mars once had rivers, lakes and perhaps a sea, and today its water is mostly frozen in polar ice caps and under the ground.
Who acts: Mars · What happens: have, freeze · To what, where: rivers, water, polar ice caps
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mars» 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 (Mars), 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 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lakes | punct |
| 6 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rivers | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sea | cc |
| 8 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 10 sea | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rivers | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 frozen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 frozen | cc |
| 13 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 frozen | obl |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 water | nmod:poss |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 frozen | aux:pass |
| 17 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 18 frozen | advmod |
| 18 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 caps | case |
| 20 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 caps | amod |
| 21 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 caps | compound |
| 22 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 frozen | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ground | cc |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 caps | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mars | rivers and lakes and a sea | once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | |||
| 2 | freeze | present · passive | sea's water | polar ice caps and the ground | today | mostly property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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:008-mars.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): 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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