Continents and oceans, sentence 0
Most of the Earth's surface is covered by water: about seven tenths is ocean and only about three tenths is land.
Who acts: water, seven tenths, three tenths · What happens: cover, be · To what, where: Most, ocean, land
This is a sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» of the world 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 (water, seven tenths, three tenths), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 surface | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Earth | det |
| 4 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 surface | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Earth | case |
| 6 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 covered | aux:pass |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covered | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 tenths | punct |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 seven | advmod |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 tenths | nummod |
| 14 | tenths | tenth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ocean | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ocean | cop |
| 16 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covered | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 land | cc |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 three | advmod |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 three | advmod |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 tenths | nummod |
| 21 | tenths | tenth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 land | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 land | cop |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ocean | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present · passive | water | Most of the Earth's surface | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | seven tenths | ocean and land | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | three tenths | land | tree rules |
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:world:042-continents-and-oceans.lesson:0.
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 ×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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