--- title: Look at a world map on your bedroom wall and slide South America ove… — Moving continents: from Pangaea to today · tree and pragmatics description: Look at a world map on your bedroom wall and slide South America over to Africa: the bulge of Brazil tucks into the curve of West Africa like two jigsaw pieces. Who acts: you, bulge. 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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 (you, bulge), 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:2 # text = Look at a world map on your bedroom wall and slide South America over to Africa: the bulge of Brazil tucks into the curve of West Africa like two jigsaw pieces. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 bedroom bedroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 slide slide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 over over ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bulge bulge NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 tucks tuck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 curve curve NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 jigsaw jigsaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | on your bedroom wall; at a world map | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at map=Theme | | 2 | **slide** | infinitive | you *not said here* | South America | | | | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent america=Agent | | 3 | **tuck** | present | the bulge of Brazil | | | the curve of West Africa | | like two jigsaw pieces | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into curve=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](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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/1/) - next →: [Moving continents: from Pangaea to today, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/)