Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, sentence 6
Wetlands such as marshes and swamps soak up flood water like a sponge, clean the water, and are home to many birds, frogs and fish.
Who acts: Wetlands · What happens: soak up, clean, be · 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 | 7 soak | nsubj |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 marshes | case |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 2 such | fixed |
| 4 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wetlands | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 swamps | cc |
| 6 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 marshes | conj |
| 7 | soak | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 soak | compound:prt |
| 9 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 water | compound |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soak | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 sponge | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sponge | det |
| 13 | sponge | sponge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soak | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clean | punct |
| 15 | clean | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 soak | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clean | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clean | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 home | cc |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 birds | cop |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clean | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 birds | case |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 birds | amod |
| 24 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 home | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 frogs | punct |
| 26 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 birds | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fish | cc |
| 28 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 birds | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 such marshes and swamps | flood water | like a sponge | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | |||
| 2 | clean | present | Wetlands such marshes and swamps not said here | the water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | to many birds and frogs and fish | tree rules |
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:6.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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