--- title: Pangaea was not the first supercontinent: earlier ones such as Rodin… — Moving continents: from Pangaea to today · tree and pragmatics description: Pangaea was not the first supercontinent: earlier ones such as Rodinia, about 1 billion years ago, came together and split too. Who acts: Pangaea, earlier ones. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pangaea, earlier ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:043-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today.lesson:13 # text = Pangaea was not the first supercontinent: earlier ones such as Rodinia, about 1 billion years ago, came together and split too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 043-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Pangaea Pangaea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 supercontinent supercontinent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 earlier early ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 9 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 10 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 12 case _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 Rodinia Rodinia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 compound _ _ 16 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 ago ago ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 21 together together ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 split split VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 too too ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | past | Pangaea | the first supercontinent | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come together** | past | earlier ones such Rodinia | | | | year | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **split** | past | earlier ones such Rodinia *not said here* | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:043-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today.lesson:13`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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