The water cycle, sentence 16
The amount of water on Earth stays about the same; it just keeps moving around.
Who acts: amount · What happens: stay, keep, move around, amount · To what, where: 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 (amount), 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 amount | det |
| 2 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stays | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 amount | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Earth | case |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 water | nmod |
| 7 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 same | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 same | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stays | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 keeps | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keeps | nsubj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 keeps | advmod |
| 14 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stays | parataxis |
| 15 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 keeps | xcomp |
| 16 | around | around | ADV | _ | 15 moving | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | the amount of water on Earth | same property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | amount | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | move around | gerund | amount not said here | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | amount | water on Earth | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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