Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped, sentence 17
Water grows bigger when it freezes, so ice in a crack pushes the rock apart.
Who acts: Water, ice · What happens: grow, freeze, push · To what, where: rock
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 (Water, ice), 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 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 grows | xcomp |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 freezes | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 freezes | nsubj |
| 6 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grows | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pushes | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 pushes | advmod |
| 9 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushes | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 crack | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crack | det |
| 12 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ice | nmod |
| 13 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grows | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rock | det |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushes | obj |
| 16 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 13 pushes | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Water | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | freeze | present | Water | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | push | present | ice in a crack | the rock | apart property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=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:17.
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, 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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