Islands, seas and lakes, sentence 2

How salty a sea is depends on a simple balance: lots of rivers make it fresher, like the Baltic, and strong sun and few rivers make it saltier, like the Mediterranean.

Who acts: sea, lots, strong sun · What happens: be, depend, make · To what, where: sea

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 (sea, lots, strong sun), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 salty	advmod
2	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 depends	csubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 salty	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 salty	cop
6	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 balance	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 balance	det
9	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 balance	amod
10	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depends	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 lots	punct
12	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 rivers	case
14	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lots	nmod
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 balance	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	fresher	fresher	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 make	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Baltic	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 Baltic	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Baltic	det
21	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 make	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
24	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sun	amod
25	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rivers	cc
27	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rivers	amod
28	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sun	conj
29	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 make	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 make	obj
31	saltier	salty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 make	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Mediterranean	punct
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 Mediterranean	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Mediterranean	det
35	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 saltier	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 depends	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a sea		salty property	tree rules
2	depend	present			on a simple balance	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on balance=Theme
3	make	present	lots of rivers	sea	like the Baltic; fresher property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	make	present	strong sun and few rivers	sea	salty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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:2.

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): 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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