Soil, sentence 8
It can take hundreds to a thousand years to form just a few centimetres of soil.
Who acts: It · What happens: take, form · To what, where: hundreds, few centimetres
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 (It), 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 | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thousand | det |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 form | mark |
| 10 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | csubj |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 centimetres | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 centimetres | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 centimetres | amod |
| 14 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 form | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 soil | case |
| 16 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 centimetres | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | It | hundreds | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | |||
| 2 | form | to-infinitive | a few centimetres of soil | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centimetre=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:8.
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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