Weathering and erosion, sentence 13
Running water is the most powerful agent of erosion on Earth.
Who acts: Running water · What happens: run, be · To what, where: powerful agent, Earth
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 (Running water), 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 | Running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 agent | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 agent | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 agent | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 powerful | advmod |
| 6 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 agent | amod |
| 7 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 erosion | case |
| 9 | erosion | erosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 agent | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Earth | case |
| 11 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 agent | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 agent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Running water | the powerful agent | Earth | of erosion | tree rules |
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:13.
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): 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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