Islands, seas and lakes, sentence 14

The Baltic Sea is brackish, much less salty than the ocean, because many rivers pour fresh water into it and its only exit is through narrow Danish straits.

Who acts: Baltic Sea, many rivers, only exit · What happens: be, pour · To what, where: fresh water, water, narrow Danish straits

This is a sentence of the lesson «Islands, seas and lakes» 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 (Baltic Sea, many rivers, only exit), 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 Sea	det
2	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sea	amod
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brackish	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brackish	cop
5	brackish	brackish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 salty	punct
7	much	much	ADV	_	9 salty	advmod
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 salty	advmod
9	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brackish	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 ocean	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ocean	det
12	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 salty	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pour	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 pour	mark
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rivers	amod
16	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pour	nsubj
17	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brackish	advcl
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 water	amod
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pour	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pour	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 straits	cc
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 exit	nmod:poss
24	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 exit	amod
25	exit	exit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 straits	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 straits	cop
27	through	through	ADP	_	30 straits	case
28	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 straits	amod
29	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 straits	amod
30	straits	strait	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pour	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brackish	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Baltic Sea			brackish property	tree rules
2	be		the Baltic Sea not said here			than the ocean; less property	tree rules
3	pour	present	many rivers	fresh water	water		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into it=Destination
4	is	present	water's only exit		narrow Danish straits		tree rules

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:006-islands-seas-and-lakes.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 ×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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