--- title: About 20,000 years ago ice covered much of Britain, so much water wa… — Glaciers and ice ages · tree and pragmatics description: About 20,000 years ago ice covered much of Britain, so much water was locked up that the sea was about 120 metres lower and you could walk to Europe across Doggerland. Who acts: ice, sea, you. A sentence of the lesson «Glaciers and ice ages» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/5/) [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/) / [Glaciers and ice ages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/) / 5 # Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 5 About 20,000 years ago ice covered much of Britain, so much water was locked up that the sea was about 120 metres lower and you could walk to Europe across Doggerland. **Who acts:** ice, sea, you · **What happens:** cover, lock up, be, walk · **To what, where:** much, much water, 120 metres, Europe, Doggerland This is a sentence of the lesson «Glaciers and ice ages» 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 (ice, sea, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:054-glaciers-and-ice-ages.lesson:5 # text = About 20,000 years ago ice covered much of Britain, so much water was locked up that the sea was about 120 metres lower and you could walk to Europe across Doggerland. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 054-glaciers-and-ice-ages.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 20,000 20000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 120 120 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 advcl _ _ 24 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 across across ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Doggerland Doggerland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **cover** | past | ice | much of Britain | | | | ago *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Destination | | 2 | **lock up** | past · passive | | much water | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | the sea | 120 metres | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **walk** | could | you | | Europe | Doggerland | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to europe=Result | 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:054-glaciers-and-ice-ages.lesson:5`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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: [Glaciers and ice ages, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/4/) - next →: [Glaciers and ice ages, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/)