Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 7

Sphagnum, or bog moss, has big empty cells that fill with water, so it can hold up to about 20 times its own dry weight, and it makes the bog wet and acidic.

Who acts: Sphagnum, big empty cells, water · What happens: have, fill, hold up, make · To what, where: big empty cells, own dry weight, 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 (Sphagnum, big empty cells, water), 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	Sphagnum	Sphagnum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moss	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 moss	cc
4	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moss	compound
5	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sphagnum	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sphagnum	punct
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cells	amod
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cells	amod
10	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fill	nsubj
12	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cells	acl:relcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 water	case
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fill	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hold	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 hold	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hold	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 hold	aux
19	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cells	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 hold	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 times	case
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 20	advmod
23	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 times	nummod
24	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hold	obl
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 weight	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 weight	amod
27	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 weight	amod
28	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hold	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 makes	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 makes	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 makes	nsubj
32	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hold	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bog	det
34	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 makes	obj
35	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 makes	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 acidic	cc
37	acidic	acidic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wet	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Sphagnum or bog moss	big empty cells			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
2	fill	present	big empty cells			with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument
3	hold up	can	water	water's own dry weight	time		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	make	present	water	the bog		wet property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bog=Product

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:7.

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): R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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