Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, sentence 11
Glaciers form where more snow falls than melts, year after year.
Who acts: Glaciers, more snow · What happens: form, fall, melt
This is a sentence of the lesson «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» 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 (Glaciers, more snow), 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 | Glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 form | nsubj |
| 2 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 falls | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 snow | amod |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 falls | nsubj |
| 6 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 form | advcl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 melts | mark |
| 8 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 falls | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 year | punct |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 year | conj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 falls | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 form | 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 | form | present | Glaciers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | present | more snow | year | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | melt | present | more snow not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:065-glaciers-ice-ages-polar-lands.lesson:11.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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