Islands, seas and lakes, sentence 3
A lake is water closed in by land, and the Caspian is so huge and salty that people call it a sea, while Baikal is so deep it holds more water than all five Great Lakes.
Who acts: lake, Caspian, people, Baikal, sea · What happens: be, close in, call, hold · To what, where: water, Caspian, more water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lake, Caspian, people, Baikal), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lake | det |
| 2 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 water | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 water | cop |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 water | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 closed | compound:prt |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 closed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 huge | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 huge | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Caspian | det |
| 12 | Caspian | Caspian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 huge | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 huge | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 huge | advmod |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 water | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 salty | cc |
| 17 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 huge | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 call | mark |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 call | nsubj |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 huge | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 call | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 deep | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 deep | mark |
| 26 | Baikal | Baikal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 deep | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 deep | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 deep | advmod |
| 29 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 huge | advcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 holds | nsubj |
| 31 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 deep | ccomp |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 water | amod |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 holds | obj |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 Lakes | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 Lakes | det |
| 36 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 Lakes | nummod |
| 37 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Lakes | amod |
| 38 | Lakes | lake | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 holds | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a lake | water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | close in | participle | water not said here | by land | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the Caspian | huge property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the Caspian not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | call | present | people | Caspian | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is | present | Baikal | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hold | present | sea | more water | than all five Great Lakes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:006-islands-seas-and-lakes.lesson:3.
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, R8-pos-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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