Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 0

A wetland is land that is soaked with water for much of the year: a marsh is full of reeds and grasses, a swamp has trees standing in water, a bog is a cold wet sponge of moss, and a mangrove is a forest growing in salty mud by the sea.

Who acts: wetland, marsh, swamp, trees, bog, mangrove · What happens: be, soak, have, stand, grow · To what, where: land, trees, water, cold wet sponge, forest, salty mud

This is a sentence of the lesson «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» of the biology 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 (wetland, marsh, swamp, trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wetland	det
2	wetland	wetland	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 land	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 land	cop
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 soaked	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 soaked	aux:pass
7	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 land	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soaked	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 much	case
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soaked	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 year	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 much	nmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 full	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 marsh	det
17	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 full	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 full	cop
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 land	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 reeds	case
21	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 full	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grasses	cc
23	grasses	grass	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 reeds	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 swamp	det
26	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 full	parataxis
28	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 has	obj
29	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 trees	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 water	case
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 standing	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sponge	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bog	det
34	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sponge	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 sponge	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 sponge	det
37	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sponge	amod
38	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sponge	amod
39	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 land	parataxis
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 moss	case
41	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sponge	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 forest	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 forest	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 mangrove	det
45	mangrove	mangrove	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 forest	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 forest	cop
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 forest	det
48	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sponge	conj
49	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 forest	acl
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 mud	case
51	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 mud	amod
52	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 growing	obl
53	by	by	ADP	_	55 sea	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 sea	det
55	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 growing	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 land	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a wetland	land			tree rules
2	soak	present · passive		land		with water; for much of the year	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with water=Theme
3	is	present	a marsh			of reeds and grasses; full property	tree rules
4	have	present	a swamp	trees			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
5	stand	gerund	trees not said here		water		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
6	is a	present	a bog	a cold wet sponge and a forest		of moss	tree rules
7	is a	present	a mangrove	a forest			tree rules
8	grow	gerund	a forest not said here		salty mud	by the sea	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=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, 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:biology:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:0.

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. 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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