--- title: Imagine a boulder as big as a car sitting alone in a field, made of… — Glaciers and ice ages · tree and pragmatics description: Imagine a boulder as big as a car sitting alone in a field, made of rock found nowhere nearby: ice carried it there. Who acts: you, boulder, ice. A sentence of the lesson «Glaciers and ice ages» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Glaciers and ice ages, sentence 6 Imagine a boulder as big as a car sitting alone in a field, made of rock found nowhere nearby: ice carried it there. **Who acts:** you, boulder, ice · **What happens:** imagine, sit, make, find, carry · **To what, where:** boulder, field, rock 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 (you, boulder, ice), 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:6 # text = Imagine a boulder as big as a car sitting alone in a field, made of rock found nowhere nearby: ice carried it there. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 boulder boulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 as as ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ _ 10 alone alone ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 20 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | a boulder | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot boulder=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | gerund | a boulder *not said here* | | | a field | | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location | | 3 | **make** | participle | | a boulder *not said here* | | | | of rock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **find** | participle | | rock *not said here* | | | | nearby, nowhere *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **carry** | past | ice | boulder | | there | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:6`. **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 ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/5/) - next →: [Glaciers and ice ages, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/)