The water cycle, sentence 13
When seawater evaporates the salt stays behind, so rain is fresh water.
Who acts: seawater, salt, rain · What happens: evaporate, stay, be · To what, where: fresh water
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 (seawater, salt, rain), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 evaporates | mark |
| 2 | seawater | seawater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evaporates | nsubj |
| 3 | evaporates | evaporate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stays | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 salt | det |
| 5 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stays | nsubj |
| 6 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 6 stays | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 water | advmod |
| 10 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 water | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 water | cop |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stays | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | evaporate | present | seawater | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | stay | present | the salt | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | rain | fresh water | tree rules |
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:13.
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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