Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 5

Under it all lies chornozem, black earth, among the richest soils in the world, built over thousands of years by steppe grass roots rotting into the ground.

Who acts: all, steppe grass roots · What happens: lie, build, rot · To what, where: chornozem, centre, richest soils, thousands, ground

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses» 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 (all, steppe grass 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	Under	under	ADP	_	2 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lies	obl
3	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	4 lies	nsubj
4	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	chornozem	chornozem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lies	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 earth	punct
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 earth	amod
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chornozem	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 soils	punct
10	among	among	ADP	_	13 soils	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soils	det
12	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 soils	amod
13	soils	soil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chornozem	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soils	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 built	punct
18	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 soils	acl
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 thousands	case
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 built	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 years	case
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thousands	nmod
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 roots	case
24	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 roots	compound
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 roots	compound
26	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 built	obl
27	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 roots	acl
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 ground	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rotting	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lies	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present	all	chornozem and black earth and the richest soils in the world	centre		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chornozem=Theme
2	build	participle		the richest soils in the world not said here	thousands of years	by steppe grass roots	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	rot	gerund	steppe grass roots not said here		the ground		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses.lesson:5.

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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