Tunnels and what lies under the street, sentence 11
Mines are shafts and tunnels dug for coal, metals or salt; some gold mines in South Africa go more than 3 km deep.
Who acts: Mines, gold mines · What happens: be, dig, go · To what, where: shafts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tunnels and what lies under the street» of the technology 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 (Mines, gold mines), 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 | Mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shafts | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shafts | cop |
| 3 | shafts | shaft | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tunnels | cc |
| 5 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shafts | conj |
| 6 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shafts | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 coal | case |
| 8 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dug | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 metals | punct |
| 10 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 coal | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 salt | cc |
| 12 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 metals | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 mines | det |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mines | compound |
| 16 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Africa | case |
| 18 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Africa | compound |
| 19 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 mines | nmod |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shafts | parataxis |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 3 | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 more | fixed |
| 23 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 km | nummod |
| 24 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 deep | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 go | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shafts | 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 | is a | present | Mines | shafts and tunnels | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dig | participle | shafts and tunnels not said here | for coal and metals or salt | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for coal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | present | some gold mines in South Africa | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:technology:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:11.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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