Soil, sentence 16
About a third of the world's soils are degraded by erosion, salt, pollution or overuse.
Who acts: erosion, world · What happens: degrade, soil · To what, where: third
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 (erosion, world), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 third | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 degraded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 soils | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soils | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 world | case |
| 8 | soils | soil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 third | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 degraded | aux:pass |
| 10 | degraded | degrade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 erosion | case |
| 12 | erosion | erosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 degraded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 salt | punct |
| 14 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 erosion | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pollution | punct |
| 16 | pollution | pollution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 erosion | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 overuse | cc |
| 18 | overuse | overuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 erosion | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 degraded | 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 | degrade | present · passive | erosion and salt and pollution or overuse | a third of the world's soils | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | soil | the world | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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:16.
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 ×2. 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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