Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, sentence 3
The fjords of Norway are U-shaped valleys later flooded by the sea.
Who acts: fjords · What happens: shape, be, flood · To what, where: shaped 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 (fjords), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fjords | det |
| 2 | fjords | fjord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 valleys | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Norway | case |
| 4 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fjords | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 valleys | cop |
| 6 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shaped | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 U | punct |
| 8 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 valleys | amod |
| 9 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 flooded | advmod |
| 11 | flooded | flood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 valleys | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flooded | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 valleys | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | the fjords of Norway | shaped valleys | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flood | participle | shaped valleys not said here | 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:3.
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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