The water cycle, sentence 12
Some rainwater soaks into the ground and becomes groundwater, which feeds wells and springs.
Who acts: rainwater, groundwater · What happens: soak, become, feed · To what, where: ground, groundwater, wells
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 (rainwater, groundwater), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 rainwater | det |
| 2 | rainwater | rainwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soaks | nsubj |
| 3 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soaks | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 becomes | cc |
| 8 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 soaks | conj |
| 9 | groundwater | groundwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 becomes | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feeds | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 feeds | nsubj |
| 12 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 groundwater | acl:relcl |
| 13 | wells | well | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feeds | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 springs | cc |
| 15 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wells | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 soaks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soak | present | some rainwater | the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | present | some rainwater not said here | groundwater | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feed | present | groundwater | wells and springs | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent well=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:12.
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): no change. 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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