Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 12

Mangrove roots break waves and hold the soil, and after the 2004 tsunami, places with mangroves often had less damage.

Who acts: Mangrove roots, places · What happens: break, hold, have · To what, where: waves, soil, less damage

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» 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 (Mangrove roots, places), 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	Mangrove	mangrove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roots	compound
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 break	nsubj
3	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 break	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hold	cc
6	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 break	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soil	det
8	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tsunami	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 tsunami	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tsunami	det
13	2004	2004	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 tsunami	compound
14	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 places	punct
16	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	nsubj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 mangroves	case
18	mangroves	mangrove	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 places	nmod
19	often	often	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 break	conj
21	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 damage	amod
22	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	Mangrove roots	waves			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wave=Patient
2	hold	present	Mangrove roots not said here	the soil			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme
3	have	past	places with mangroves	less damage	after the 2004 tsunami	often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=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:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.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): 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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