Soil and what lives in it, sentence 14
Topsoil is the dark upper layer with the most humus and life; below it lie subsoil and then solid rock.
Who acts: Topsoil, subsoil · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: dark upper layer, Topsoil
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 (Topsoil, subsoil), 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 | Topsoil | topsoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 layer | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 layer | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 layer | det |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 layer | amod |
| 5 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 layer | amod |
| 6 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 humus | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 humus | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 humus | amod |
| 10 | humus | humus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 layer | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 life | cc |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 humus | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 lie | punct |
| 14 | below | below | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lie | obl |
| 16 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 layer | parataxis |
| 17 | subsoil | subsoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lie | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rock | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 rock | advmod |
| 20 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rock | amod |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 subsoil | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 layer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Topsoil | the dark upper layer | with the most humus and life | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | present | subsoil and solid rock | Topsoil | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent below it=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:063-soil-and-what-lives-in-it.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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