Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, sentence 12
Glaciers carve valleys shaped like the letter U; rivers cut valleys shaped like the letter V.
Who acts: Glaciers, rivers · What happens: carve, shape, cut · To what, where: valleys
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, rivers), 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 carve | nsubj |
| 2 | carve | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carve | obj |
| 4 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 valleys | acl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 letter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 letter | det |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaped | obl |
| 8 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 letter | appos |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 rivers | punct |
| 10 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cut | nsubj |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 carve | parataxis |
| 12 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cut | obj |
| 13 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 valleys | acl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 letter | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 letter | det |
| 16 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaped | obl |
| 17 | V. | V. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 letter | appos |
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 | carve | present | Glaciers | valleys | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shape | participle | valleys not said here | like the letter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | cut | present | rivers | valleys | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset valley=Product | ||||
| 4 | shape | participle | valleys not said here | like the letter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:12.
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. 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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