Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 8

Rich farm soil, like that of the American Great Plains, takes thousands of years to form, and wind and rain can carry it away quickly from bare fields.

Who acts: Rich farm soil, wind · What happens: take, form, carry away · To what, where: thousands, soil, bare fields

This is a sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» 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 (Rich farm soil, wind), 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	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soil	amod
2	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soil	compound
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 takes	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 takes	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 soil	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 Plains	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Plains	det
9	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Plains	amod
10	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Plains	amod
11	Plains	plain	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 that	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 that	punct
13	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 takes	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 years	case
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thousands	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 form	mark
18	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thousands	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 carry	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 carry	cc
21	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carry	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rain	cc
23	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wind	conj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 carry	aux
25	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 takes	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 carry	obj
27	away	away	ADV	_	25 carry	advmod
28	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	25 carry	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 fields	case
30	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fields	amod
31	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 carry	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 takes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	Rich farm soil like that	thousands of years			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
2	form	to-infinitive	Rich farm soil like that not said here	thousands of years not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	carry away	can	wind and rain	soil	bare fields	away, quickly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from field=Initial_Location

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:047-natural-resources.lesson:8.

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): R8-pos-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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