Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, sentence 16
Tides are caused mostly by the pull of the Moon's gravity on the oceans.
Who acts: pull · What happens: cause, pull · To what, where: Tides, oceans, gravity
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and the sea 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 (pull), 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 | Tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | aux:pass |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 3 caused | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 pull | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pull | det |
| 7 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gravity | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gravity | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Moon | case |
| 12 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pull | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 oceans | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 oceans | det |
| 15 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caused | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present · passive | the pull of the Moon's gravity | Tides | the oceans | mostly property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||
| 2 | pull | the Moon's gravity | nom pull «act transitive»: of=patient |
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:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:16.
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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