Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands, sentence 4
An ice age is a long cold time when ice sheets spread over much of the land.
Who acts: ice age, ice sheets · What happens: be, spread · To what, where: long cold time, much
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 (ice age, ice sheets), 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 | 3 age | det |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 age | compound |
| 3 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 spread | advmod |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sheets | compound |
| 11 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spread | nsubj |
| 12 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 much | case |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spread | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 much | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | 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 ice age | a long cold time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | ice sheets | much of the land | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over much=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:4.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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