The water cycle, sentence 0
The water on Earth is used again and again in a never-ending journey called the water cycle.
Who acts: ending journey · What happens: use, not end, call · To what, where: water, ending journey, water cycle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The water cycle» of the world 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 (ending journey), 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 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Earth | case |
| 4 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 water | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 used | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 again | cc |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 again | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 journey | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 journey | det |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 ending | advmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 never | punct |
| 14 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 journey | amod |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | obl |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 journey | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cycle | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cycle | compound |
| 19 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | the water on Earth | a ending journey | again | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | not end | gerund | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | a ending journey not said here | the water cycle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cycle=Recipient |
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:world:014-the-water-cycle.lesson:0.
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, 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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