The water cycle, sentence 14
Most of Earth's water is salty water in the oceans; only a small part is fresh.
Who acts: Most, small part · What happens: be · To what, where: salty water, oceans
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 (Most, small part), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 water | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 3 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 water | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Earth | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 water | cop |
| 7 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fresh | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 oceans | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 oceans | det |
| 11 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 water | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 part | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 part | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 part | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 part | amod |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fresh | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fresh | cop |
| 18 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 water | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Most of Earth's water | salty water | the oceans | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | a small part | fresh property | 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:14.
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): R6-punct-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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