--- title: The Holderness coast in Yorkshire is one of Europe's fastest-eroding… — Coasts and caves · tree and pragmatics description: The Holderness coast in Yorkshire is one of Europe's fastest-eroding coasts, losing about 1-2 metres a year. Who acts: Holderness coast, fastest eroding coasts. 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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 (Holderness coast, fastest eroding coasts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:055-coasts-and-caves.lesson:12 # text = The Holderness coast in Yorkshire is one of Europe's fastest-eroding coasts, losing about 1-2 metres a year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 055-coasts-and-caves.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Holderness Holderness PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Yorkshire Yorkshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 9 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 eroding erode VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 coasts coast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 1-2 1-2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is a** | present | the Holderness coast in Yorkshire | one | | | | of Europe's fastest eroding coasts | tree rules | | 2 | **erode** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **lose** | gerund | Europe's fastest eroding coasts *not said here* | 1-2 metres a year | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metre=Eventuality | 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:055-coasts-and-caves.lesson:12`. **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, R7-rel-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: [Coasts and caves, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/11/) - next →: [Coasts and caves, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/)