Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 15
Scientists measure earthquakes with instruments called seismometers.
Who acts: Scientists, instruments · What happens: measure, call · To what, where: earthquakes, seismometers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Volcanoes and earthquakes up close» 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 (Scientists, instruments), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 measure | nsubj |
| 2 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 measure | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 instruments | case |
| 5 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 measure | obl |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 instruments | acl |
| 7 | seismometers | seismometer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 measure | 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 | measure | present | Scientists | earthquakes | with instruments | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme earthquake=Value | |||
| 2 | call | participle | instruments not said here | seismometers | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.lesson:15.
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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