Soil and what lives in it, sentence 15
Plant roots hold soil in place, so bare soil is easily washed or blown away; this loss is called soil erosion.
Who acts: Plant roots · What happens: hold, wash, blow away, call · To what, where: soil, place, bare soil, loss · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Plant roots), 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 | Plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roots | compound |
| 2 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 washed | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 washed | advmod |
| 9 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 soil | amod |
| 10 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 washed | aux:pass |
| 12 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 13 washed | advmod |
| 13 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hold | parataxis |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 blown | cc |
| 15 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 washed | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 blown | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 loss | det |
| 19 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hold | parataxis |
| 22 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 erosion | compound |
| 23 | erosion | erosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Plant roots | soil | place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent soil=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 2 | wash | present · passive | bare soil | easily property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | blow away | participle | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | this loss | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:15.
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 ×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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