The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator, sentence 12
About seven tenths of the Earth's surface is covered by water.
Who acts: water · What happens: cover · To what, where: seven tenths
This is a sentence of the lesson «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» 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 (water), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 seven | advmod |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 tenths | nummod |
| 3 | tenths | tenth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 surface | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Earth | det |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 surface | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Earth | case |
| 8 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tenths | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 covered | aux:pass |
| 10 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 covered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 covered | 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 | cover | present · passive | water | seven tenths of the Earth's surface | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |
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:007-shape-and-size-of-the-earth.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): R5-strong ×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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