Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 1

Squeeze a handful of bog moss and water pours out as if from a bath sponge; a whole bog works like that, holding rain and letting it go slowly.

Who acts: you, water, whole bog, bog · What happens: squeeze, pour out, work, hold, let, go · To what, where: handful, bath sponge, rain, bog

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 (you, water, whole bog, bog), 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	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 handful	det
3	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeeze	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 moss	case
5	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moss	compound
6	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handful	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pours	cc
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pours	nsubj
9	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Squeeze	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 pours	compound:prt
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 works	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 works	mark
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 sponge	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sponge	det
15	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sponge	compound
16	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 works	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sponge	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bog	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bog	amod
20	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 works	nsubj
21	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Squeeze	parataxis
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 works	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 holding	punct
25	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 works	advcl
26	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 holding	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 letting	cc
28	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 holding	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 letting	obj
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 letting	xcomp
31	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Squeeze	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here	a handful of bog moss			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
2	pour out	present	water				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	work a condition, not said to happen	present	a whole bog		a bath sponge	like that	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hold	gerund	a whole bog not said here	rain			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme
5	let	gerund	a whole bog not said here	bog			tree rules
6	go	infinitive	bog not said here			slowly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:1.

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. 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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