Soil and what lives in it, sentence 1
It is a mix of tiny bits of broken rock, humus (dark rotted remains of plants and animals), water, air, and a huge number of living things.
Who acts: Soil · What happens: be, break, rot, live · To what, where: mix
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soil and what lives in it» 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 (Soil), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mix | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mix | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mix | det |
| 4 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bits | case |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bits | amod |
| 7 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mix | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rock | case |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rock | amod |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bits | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 humus | punct |
| 12 | humus | humus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bits | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 dark | punct |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 remains | amod |
| 15 | rotted | rot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 remains | amod |
| 16 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 humus | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 plants | case |
| 18 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 remains | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 animals | cc |
| 20 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 plants | conj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 remains | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 water | punct |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 humus | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 air | punct |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 humus | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 number | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 number | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 number | det |
| 29 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 number | amod |
| 30 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 humus | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 things | case |
| 32 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 things | amod |
| 33 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 number | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mix | 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 | Soil | a mix | of tiny bits of broken rock and humus and water and air and a huge number of living things | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | rot | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:063-soil-and-what-lives-in-it.lesson:1.
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, 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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