Soil, sentence 1

It is a living mix of tiny bits of rock, rotting leaves and animals called humus, water, air and countless living things, and almost all our food grows in it.

Who acts: Soil, countless, food · What happens: be, rot, call, live, grow · To what, where: living mix, things, Soil · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soil» 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 (Soil, countless, food), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mix	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mix	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mix	det
4	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mix	amod
5	mix	mix	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bits	case
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bits	amod
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mix	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 rock	case
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bits	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leaves	punct
12	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 leaves	amod
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mix	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 animals	cc
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 leaves	conj
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 humus	amod
17	humus	humus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaves	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 water	punct
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 humus	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 air	punct
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 humus	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 countless	cc
23	countless	countless	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 humus	conj
24	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 countless	acl
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 living	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grows	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 grows	cc
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	29 all	advmod
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 food	det:predet
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 food	nmod:poss
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grows	nsubj
32	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mix	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 grows	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mix	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed hedge=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Soil	a living mix and rotting leaves called humus and water and air and countless and animals		of tiny bits of rock	tree rules
2	rot	gerund					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	call	participle					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	live	gerund	countless not said here	things			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location
5	grow	present	our food		Soil		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location

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:056-soil.lesson:1.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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