Soil, sentence 14
Many rainforest soils are surprisingly poor, because heavy rain washes nutrients out and most nutrients are stored in the plants.
Who acts: Many rainforest soils, heavy rain · What happens: be, wash out, store · To what, where: nutrients, most nutrients, plants
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 (Many rainforest soils, heavy rain), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soils | amod |
| 2 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soils | compound |
| 3 | soils | soil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poor | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 poor | cop |
| 5 | surprisingly | surprisingly | ADV | _ | 6 poor | advmod |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 washes | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 washes | mark |
| 9 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rain | amod |
| 10 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 washes | nsubj |
| 11 | washes | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 poor | advcl |
| 12 | nutrients | nutrient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 washes | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 washes | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stored | cc |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 nutrients | amod |
| 16 | nutrients | nutrient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stored | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stored | aux:pass |
| 18 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 washes | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 plants | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plants | det |
| 21 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stored | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many rainforest soils | poor, surprisingly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wash out | present | heavy rain | nutrients | out property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nutrient=Patient | |||
| 3 | store | present · passive | most nutrients | the plants | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in plant=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:14.
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): R7-rel-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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