Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped, sentence 0

The outer shell of the Earth is not one piece: it is broken into huge slabs called plates, which float on hot soft rock and move a few centimetres a year, about as fast as your fingernails grow.

Who acts: outer shell, huge slabs, fingernails · What happens: not be, break, call, float, move, grow · To what, where: one piece, shell, huge slabs, plates, hot soft rock, few centimetres · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped» 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 (outer shell, huge slabs, fingernails), 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	3 shell	det
2	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shell	amod
3	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 piece	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shell	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 piece	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 piece	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 piece	nummod
10	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 broken	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 broken	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 broken	aux:pass
14	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 piece	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 slabs	case
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 slabs	amod
17	slabs	slab	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 broken	obl
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 slabs	acl
19	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 called	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 float	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 float	nsubj
22	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 slabs	acl:relcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 rock	case
24	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rock	amod
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rock	amod
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 float	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 move	cc
28	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 float	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 centimetres	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 centimetres	amod
31	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 move	obj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 year	det
33	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 centimetres	nmod:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fast	punct
35	about	about	ADV	_	37 fast	advmod
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 fast	advmod
37	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 move	advmod
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 grow	mark
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 fingernails	nmod:poss
40	fingernails	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 grow	nsubj
41	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 fast	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 piece	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the outer shell of the Earth	one piece			tree rules
2	break	present · passive		shell		into huge slabs result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into slab=Result
3	call	participle	huge slabs not said here	plates			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	float	present	huge slabs		hot soft rock		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Trajectory
5	move	present	huge slabs not said here	a few centimetres a year		fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent centimetre=Theme
6	grow	present	your fingernails				vn appear-48.1.1 «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:world:043-landforms.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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