Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, sentence 22
An iceberg is a piece of ice that has broken off a glacier into the sea, and most of it lies under the water.
Who acts: iceberg, ice, most · What happens: be, break off, lie · To what, where: piece, glacier, sea, water
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 (iceberg, ice, most), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 iceberg | det |
| 2 | iceberg | iceberg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 piece | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 broken | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 broken | aux |
| 10 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 ice | acl:relcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 broken | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 glacier | det |
| 13 | glacier | glacier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broken | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broken | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lies | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lies | cc |
| 19 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 lies | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 most | nmod |
| 22 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 piece | conj |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lies | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a iceberg | a piece | of ice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break off | present · perfect | ice | a glacier | into the sea result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent glacier=Patient into sea=Result | |||
| 3 | lie | present | most of ice | the water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location |
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:22.
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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