Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 10
Rivers carry tiny amounts of salt from rocks into the sea; water evaporates from the sea but the salt stays behind, so the sea is salty.
Who acts: Rivers, water, salt, sea · What happens: carry, evaporate, stay, be, amount · To what, where: tiny amounts, rocks, sea, salt
This is a sentence of the lesson «Water: the most amazing liquid» of the chemistry 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 (Rivers, water, salt, sea), 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 | Rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 amounts | amod |
| 4 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 salt | case |
| 6 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amounts | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 rocks | case |
| 8 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | obl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 evaporates | punct |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 evaporates | nsubj |
| 14 | evaporates | evaporate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 carry | parataxis |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 evaporates | obl |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 stays | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 salt | det |
| 20 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stays | nsubj |
| 21 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 evaporates | conj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 21 stays | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 salty | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 salty | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 salty | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 salty | cop |
| 28 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stays | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Rivers | tiny amounts of salt | rocks | into the sea | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent amount=Theme from rock=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | evaporate | present | water | the sea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stay | present | the salt | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the sea | salty property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | amount | salt | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:chemistry:034-water-amazing-liquid.lesson:10.
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, R7-rel-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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