Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, sentence 18
Wetlands soak up flood water and clean it.
Who acts: Wetlands · What happens: soak up, clean · To what, where: flood water, water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» 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 (Wetlands), 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 | Wetlands | wetland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 soak | nsubj |
| 2 | soak | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 soak | compound:prt |
| 4 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 water | compound |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soak | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 clean | cc |
| 7 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 soak | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 clean | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 soak | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soak up | present | Wetlands | flood water | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | ||||
| 2 | clean | infinitive | Wetlands not said here | water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:18.
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): no change. 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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