--- title: The film keeps playing: the Atlantic is still widening, Africa is cr… — Moving continents: from Pangaea to today · tree and pragmatics description: The film keeps playing: the Atlantic is still widening, Africa is creeping into Europe, and in a couple of hundred million years the continents will probably meet again, though scientists argue about the shape. Who acts: film, Atlantic, Africa, continents. 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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 (film, Atlantic, Africa, 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:4 # text = The film keeps playing: the Atlantic is still widening, Africa is creeping into Europe, and in a couple of hundred million years the continents will probably meet again, though scientists argue about the 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Atlantic Atlantic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 widening widen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 creeping creep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 compound _ _ 24 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 continents continent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 probably probably ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 though though SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 36 about about ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | the film | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **play** | gerund | the film *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **widen** | present · progressive | the Atlantic | | | | still | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **creep** | present · progressive | Africa | | | Europe | | in a couple of million years | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into europe=Destination | | 5 | **meet** | future | the continents | | | | again | probably *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | scientists | | | | | about the 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. 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