Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, sentence 14
A fjord is a deep U-shaped valley carved by a glacier and later flooded by the sea.
Who acts: fjord · What happens: shape, be, carve, flood · To what, where: deep U shaped valley
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 (fjord), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fjord | det |
| 2 | fjord | fjord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 valley | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 valley | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 valley | det |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 valley | amod |
| 6 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 valley | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 U | punct |
| 8 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 valley | amod |
| 9 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 valley | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 glacier | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 glacier | det |
| 13 | glacier | glacier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carved | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flooded | cc |
| 15 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 flooded | advmod |
| 16 | flooded | flood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 carved | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flooded | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 valley | 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 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a fjord | a deep U shaped valley | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carve | participle | a deep U shaped valley not said here | by a glacier | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | flood | participle | by the sea; late property | vn other_cos-45.4 «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:14.
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): 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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