Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 17
Volcanic ash breaks down into very fertile soil, so many farms lie near volcanoes.
Who acts: Volcanic ash, many farms · What happens: break down, lie · To what, where: fertile soil, volcanoes
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 (Volcanic ash, many farms), 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 | Volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ash | amod |
| 2 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breaks | nsubj |
| 3 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lie | parataxis |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 breaks | compound:prt |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 soil | case |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 fertile | advmod |
| 7 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 soil | amod |
| 8 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breaks | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lie | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 lie | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 farms | amod |
| 12 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lie | nsubj |
| 13 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 volcanoes | case |
| 15 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lie | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 breaks | 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 down | present | Volcanic ash | into fertile soil result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into soil=Result | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | many farms | volcanoes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near volcano=Location |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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