Islands, seas and lakes, sentence 15

The shore of the Dead Sea, between Israel, the West Bank and Jordan, is about 430 metres below sea level, the lowest land on Earth, and its water is almost ten times saltier than the ocean, so heavy (dense) that people float on it easily.

Who acts: shore, water, people · What happens: be, float · To what, where: 430 metres, sea level, water

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 (shore, water, people), 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	2 shore	det
2	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 metres	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sea	det
5	Dead	Dead	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sea	compound
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shore	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Israel	punct
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 Israel	case
9	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shore	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Bank	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Bank	det
12	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Bank	compound
13	Bank	Bank	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Israel	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Jordan	cc
15	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sea	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 shore	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 metres	cop
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 430	advmod
19	430	430	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 metres	nummod
20	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
21	below	below	ADP	_	23 level	case
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 level	compound
23	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 metres	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 land	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 land	det
26	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 land	amod
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 metres	appos
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 Earth	case
29	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 land	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 saltier	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 saltier	cc
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 water	nmod:poss
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 saltier	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 saltier	cop
35	almost	almost	ADV	_	36 ten	advmod
36	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 times	nummod
37	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 saltier	obl:unmarked
38	saltier	salty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 metres	parataxis
39	than	than	ADP	_	41 ocean	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ocean	det
41	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 saltier	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 heavy	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 heavy	advmod
44	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 saltier	parataxis
45	(	(	PUNCT	_	46 dense	punct
46	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 heavy	conj
47	)	)	PUNCT	_	46 dense	punct
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 float	mark
49	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 float	nsubj
50	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 heavy	advcl
51	on	on	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 float	obl
53	easily	easily	ADV	_	50 float	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 metres	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the shore of the Dead Sea and Jordan between Israel and the West Bank	430 metres	sea level			tree rules
2	is	present	sea's water			time	than the ocean; salty property	tree rules
3	float	present	people		water		easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

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:15.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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