Soil, sentence 5
Soil grows painfully slowly: a few centimetres can take hundreds to a thousand years.
Who acts: Soil, few centimetres · What happens: grow, take · To what, where: hundreds
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, few centimetres), 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 | Soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | painfully | painfully | ADV | _ | 4 slowly | advmod |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 2 grows | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 grows | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 centimetres | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 centimetres | amod |
| 8 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 grows | parataxis |
| 11 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thousand | det |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Soil | slowly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | can | a few centimetres | hundreds | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |
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:5.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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