Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped, sentence 18
Most earthquakes and volcanoes happen where plates meet.
Who acts: Most earthquakes, plates · What happens: happen, meet
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 (Most earthquakes, plates), 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 | 2 earthquakes | amod |
| 2 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 volcanoes | cc |
| 4 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 earthquakes | conj |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 meet | advmod |
| 7 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meet | nsubj |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Most earthquakes and volcanoes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | present | plates | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:18.
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): no change. 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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