Volcanoes and earthquakes up close, sentence 8
Most volcanoes and earthquakes are found where the Earth's plates meet.
Who acts: plates · What happens: find, meet · To what, where: Most 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 (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 volcanoes | amod |
| 2 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 earthquakes | cc |
| 4 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 volcanoes | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 meet | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Earth | det |
| 9 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 plates | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Earth | case |
| 11 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 meet | nsubj |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | advcl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | Most volcanoes and earthquakes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | meet | present | the Earth's 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:062-volcanoes-and-earthquakes.lesson:8.
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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