The water cycle, sentence 1
The Sun warms seas, lakes, rivers and soil, and water evaporates into the air as invisible vapour; plants also give off water vapour from their leaves.
Who acts: Sun, water, plants · What happens: warm, evaporate, give off · To what, where: seas, air, water vapour, leaves
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 (Sun, water, plants), 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 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 warms | nsubj |
| 3 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 warms | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lakes | punct |
| 6 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seas | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rivers | punct |
| 8 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seas | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 soil | cc |
| 10 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seas | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 evaporates | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 evaporates | cc |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 evaporates | nsubj |
| 14 | evaporates | evaporate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 warms | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 evaporates | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 vapour | case |
| 19 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 vapour | amod |
| 20 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 evaporates | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 plants | punct |
| 22 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 give | nsubj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 give | advmod |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 warms | parataxis |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 give | compound:prt |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 vapour | compound |
| 27 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 leaves | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 30 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 give | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warms | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm | present | the Sun | seas and lakes and rivers and soil | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | evaporate | present | water | the air | as invisible vapour | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | give off | present | plants | water vapour | plants's leaves | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source vapour=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:world:014-the-water-cycle.lesson:1.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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