Soil, sentence 13

The black soils of Ukraine and southern Russia, called chernozem, are among the most fertile in the world, which is why Ukraine is called the breadbasket of Europe.

Who acts: black soils · What happens: call, be, soil · To what, where: chernozem, Ukraine · 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 (black soils), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soils	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soils	amod
3	soils	soil	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fertile	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Ukraine	case
5	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 soils	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Russia	cc
7	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Russia	amod
8	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ukraine	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chernozem	punct
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 chernozem	acl
11	chernozem	chernozem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soils	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 soils	punct
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fertile	cop
14	among	among	ADP	_	20 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fertile	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 fertile	advmod
17	fertile	fertile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fertile	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 why	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 why	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 why	cop
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 fertile	parataxis
25	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 called	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 called	aux:pass
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 why	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 breadbasket	det
29	breadbasket	breadbasket	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 called	xcomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Europe	case
31	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 breadbasket	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 fertile	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle		chernozem not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the black soils of Ukraine and southern Russia		among the world; fertile property	tree rules
3	is	present			why property	tree rules
4	call	present · passive		Ukraine		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	soil			Ukraine and southern Russia		nom soil «state transitive»: of=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:056-soil.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): 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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