Weathering and erosion, sentence 17
Clearing forests and ploughing can make soil erode many times faster than natural rates.
Who acts: Clearing, soil · What happens: clear, make, erode · To what, where: forests, soil
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 (Clearing, soil), 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 | Clearing | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 make | csubj |
| 2 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Clearing | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ploughing | cc |
| 4 | ploughing | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clearing | conj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | erode | erode | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 times | amod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 faster | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 erode | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 rates | case |
| 13 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rates | amod |
| 14 | rates | rate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 faster | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | 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 | clear | gerund | forests | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent forest=Source | |||||
| 2 | make | can | Clearing | soil | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | erode | infinitive | soil not said here | fast property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:geography:052-weathering-and-erosion.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): R8-pos-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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