Deserts, sentence 17
An oasis is a place in a desert where underground water reaches the surface or can be dug out easily, so palms and crops can grow.
Who acts: oasis, underground water, palms · What happens: be, reach, dig out, grow · To what, where: place, desert, surface
This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts» of the geography 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 (oasis, underground water, palms), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 oasis | det |
| 2 | oasis | oasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 desert | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 desert | det |
| 8 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 reaches | advmod |
| 10 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reaches | nsubj |
| 12 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 desert | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 surface | det |
| 14 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reaches | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 dug | cc |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 dug | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dug | aux:pass |
| 18 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 reaches | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 dug | compound:prt |
| 20 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 18 dug | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grow | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 grow | advmod |
| 23 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 grow | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 crops | cc |
| 25 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 palms | conj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 grow | aux |
| 27 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 place | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a oasis | a place | a desert | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reach | present | underground water | the surface | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent surface=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dig out | can · passive | underground water not said here | easily property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | grow | can | palms and crops | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:geography:018-deserts.lesson:17.
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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