--- title: Scientists predict the continents will join again in about 200-250 m… — Moving continents: from Pangaea to today · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists predict the continents will join again in about 200-250 million years, though they argue about the exact shape. Who acts: Scientists, continents. A sentence of the lesson «Moving continents: from Pangaea to today» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Moving continents: from Pangaea to today](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/) / 14 # Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, sentence 14 Scientists predict the continents will join again in about 200-250 million years, though they argue about the exact shape. **Who acts:** Scientists, continents · **What happens:** predict, join, argue This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving continents: from Pangaea to today» of the geography 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 (Scientists, continents), 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:14 # text = Scientists predict the continents will join again in about 200-250 million years, though they argue about the exact shape. # 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): no change 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 predict predict VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 continents continent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 200-250 200-250 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 compound _ _ 11 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 though though SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **predict** | present | Scientists | | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | | 2 | **join** | future | the continents | | | | again; year | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | continents *= continent* | | | | | about the exact shape | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about shape=Topic | 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:14`. **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): no change. **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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