Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 17

Wetlands soak up flood water like giant sponges and let it out slowly, and reed roots trap mud and clean the water.

Who acts: Wetlands, reed roots · What happens: soak up, let out, trap, clean · To what, where: flood water, water, 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 (Wetlands, reed roots), 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	Wetlands	wetland	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 soak	nsubj
2	soak	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 soak	compound:prt
4	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soak	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 sponges	case
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sponges	amod
8	sponges	sponge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 soak	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 soak	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 let	compound:prt
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 let	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trap	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 trap	cc
16	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 roots	compound
17	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 trap	nsubj
18	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 soak	conj
19	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trap	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 clean	cc
21	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 trap	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clean	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 soak	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	Wetlands	flood water	like giant sponges	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source
2	let out	infinitive	Wetlands not said here	water	slowly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	trap	present	reed roots	mud		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Patient
4	clean	present	reed roots not said here	the water		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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:17.

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, R6-punct-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.

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