--- title: The coasts of South America and Africa fit together like jigsaw piec… — Moving continents: from Pangaea to today · tree and pragmatics description: The coasts of South America and Africa fit together like jigsaw pieces, and the fit is even better along the edges of the continental shelves under the sea, because today's beaches have been worn away and flooded by the sea. Who acts: coasts, fit. 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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 (coasts, fit), 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:9 # text = The coasts of South America and Africa fit together like jigsaw pieces, and the fit is even better along the edges of the continental shelves under the sea, because today's beaches have been worn away and flooded by the sea. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 coasts coast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 jigsaw jigsaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fit fit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 conj _ _ 20 along along ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 continental continental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 shelves shelf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 27 under under ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 32 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 38 away away ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 flooded flood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 conj _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fit together** | present | the coasts of South America and Africa | | | | | like jigsaw pieces; together *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | the fit | | | | | along the edges of the continental shelves under the sea; good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **wear away** | present · perfect · passive | | today's beaches | | | | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | | 4 | **flood** | participle | | | | | | by the sea | vn other\_cos-45.4 «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:9`. **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): 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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