Soil and what lives in it, sentence 3

Soil is alive: one handful of good soil holds more tiny living things than there are people on Earth.

Who acts: Soil, one handful, people · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: tiny living things, Earth

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, one handful, people), 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	Soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 alive	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 alive	cop
3	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 handful	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 handful	nummod
6	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 alive	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 soil	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soil	amod
9	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handful	nmod
10	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 handful	acl
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 tiny	advmod
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
13	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 things	compound
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 holds	obj
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	17 are	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 are	expl
17	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 holds	advcl
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 are	nsubj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 Earth	case
20	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 are	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 alive	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Soil			alive property	tree rules
2	hold	present	one handful of good soil not said here	tiny living things			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	does	present	people		Earth; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=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:3.

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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