Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped, sentence 5
The Earth's outer shell is broken into huge plates that move very slowly.
Who acts: huge plates · What happens: break, move · To what, where: outer shell, huge plates
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 (huge 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shell | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Earth | case |
| 4 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shell | amod |
| 5 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 broken | aux:pass |
| 7 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 plates | case |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plates | amod |
| 10 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 broken | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 move | nsubj |
| 12 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 plates | acl:relcl |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 slowly | advmod |
| 14 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 move | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 broken | 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 | break | present · passive | the Earth's outer shell | into huge plates result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into plate=Result | ||||
| 2 | move | present | huge plates | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:5.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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