Weathering and erosion, sentence 4
Rain is slightly acidic and slowly dissolves limestone, and roots and lichens break rock too.
Who acts: Rain, roots · What happens: be, dissolve, break · To what, where: limestone, rock
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 (Rain, roots), 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 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 acidic | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 acidic | cop |
| 3 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 4 acidic | advmod |
| 4 | acidic | acidic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dissolves | cc |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 7 dissolves | advmod |
| 7 | dissolves | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 acidic | conj |
| 8 | limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dissolves | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 break | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 break | cc |
| 11 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 break | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lichens | cc |
| 13 | lichens | lichen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 roots | conj |
| 14 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 acidic | conj |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 break | obj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 break | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 acidic | 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 | is | present | Rain | acidic, slightly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dissolve | present | Rain not said here | limestone | slowly property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limestone=Patient | |||
| 3 | break | present | roots and lichens | rock | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=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:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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