Weathering and erosion, sentence 10
Plant roots grow into cracks and split rocks, and lichens slowly eat into their surface.
Who acts: Plant roots, lichens · What happens: grow, split, eat · To what, where: cracks, surface
This is a sentence of the lesson «Weathering and erosion» 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 (Plant roots, lichens), 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 | Plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roots | compound |
| 2 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 cracks | case |
| 5 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rocks | cc |
| 7 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rocks | amod |
| 8 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cracks | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eat | cc |
| 11 | lichens | lichen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 12 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 13 eat | advmod |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grow | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 surface | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 surface | nmod:poss |
| 16 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eat | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Plant roots | into cracks and split rocks result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into crack=Result | ||||
| 2 | split | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | eat | present | lichens | Rocks's surface | slowly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:052-weathering-and-erosion.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): 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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