Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 21

Worms come up when the ground is wet and can dry out on paths; they keep soil healthy.

Who acts: Worms, ground · What happens: come up, be, dry out, keep · To what, where: paths, soil

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday 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 (Worms, ground), 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	Worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 come	compound:prt
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 wet	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wet	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wet	cop
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 come	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dry	cc
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 dry	aux
11	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wet	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 dry	compound:prt
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 paths	case
14	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dry	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 keep	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	nsubj
17	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	parataxis
18	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obj
19	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 keep	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	present	Worms				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the ground			wet property	tree rules
3	dry out	can	the ground not said here		paths		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	keep	present	worms = worm	soil		healthy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme

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:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:21.

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): no change. 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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