Weathering and erosion, sentence 9
Rainwater is slightly acidic and slowly dissolves rocks such as limestone.
Who acts: Rainwater · What happens: be, dissolve · To what, where: rocks
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 (Rainwater), 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 | Rainwater | rainwater | 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 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dissolves | obj |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 limestone | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rocks | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | 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 | Rainwater | acidic, slightly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dissolve | present | Rainwater not said here | rocks | such limestone; slowly property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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:9.
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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