Islands, seas and lakes, sentence 4

Water can also vanish: the Aral Sea shrank to about a tenth because its rivers were taken for farms, and boats now lie in the desert.

Who acts: Water, Aral Sea, boats · What happens: vanish, shrink, take, lie · To what, where: rivers, desert

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 (Water, Aral Sea, boats), 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	Water	Water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanish	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vanish	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 vanish	advmod
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 shrank	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sea	det
7	Aral	Aral	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sea	compound
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shrank	nsubj
9	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vanish	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 tenth	case
11	about	about	ADV	_	13 tenth	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tenth	det
13	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shrank	obl
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 taken	mark
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 rivers	nmod:poss
16	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 taken	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux:pass
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 shrank	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 farms	case
20	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 taken	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lie	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lie	cc
23	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lie	nsubj
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 lie	advmod
25	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shrank	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 desert	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 desert	det
28	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lie	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 vanish	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	can	Water					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shrink	past	the Aral Sea				to a tenth result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to tenth=Result
3	take	past · passive		sea's rivers			for farms	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for farm=Beneficiary
4	lie	present	boats		the desert	now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in desert=Location

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:4.

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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