--- title: Most volcanoes sit where plates pull apart or where one plate dives… — Volcanoes: how and where · tree and pragmatics description: Most volcanoes sit where plates pull apart or where one plate dives under another, and some, like Hawaii's, sit over a hotspot in the middle of a plate. Who acts: Most volcanoes, plates, one plate, some. A sentence of the lesson «Volcanoes: how and where» of the geography course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/3/) [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/) / [Volcanoes: how and where](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/) / 3 # Volcanoes: how and where, sentence 3 Most volcanoes sit where plates pull apart or where one plate dives under another, and some, like Hawaii's, sit over a hotspot in the middle of a plate. **Who acts:** Most volcanoes, plates, one plate, some · **What happens:** sit, pull apart, dive · **To what, where:** another, hotspot This is a sentence of the lesson «Volcanoes: how and where» 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 (Most volcanoes, plates, one plate, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:046-volcanoes-how-and-where.lesson:3 # text = Most volcanoes sit where plates pull apart or where one plate dives under another, and some, like Hawaii's, sit over a hotspot in the middle of a plate. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 046-volcanoes-how-and-where.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 volcanoes volcano NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 6 advmod _ _ 5 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 apart apart ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 dives dive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 under under ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Hawaii Hawaii PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hotspot hotspot NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . 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 | **sit** | present | Most volcanoes | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **pull apart** | present | plates | | | | | apart *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dive** | present | one plate | | | another | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under another=Location | | 4 | **sit** | present | some | | | a hotspot in the middle of a plate | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hotspot=Location | 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:046-volcanoes-how-and-where.lesson:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Volcanoes: how and where, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/2/) - next →: [Volcanoes: how and where, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/)