Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 18
Rainforest soil is often poor, because nutrients are quickly taken back up by plants.
Who acts: Rainforest soil, plants · What happens: be, take up · To what, where: nutrients
This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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 (Rainforest soil, plants), 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 | Rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soil | compound |
| 2 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poor | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 poor | cop |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 poor | advmod |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 taken | mark |
| 8 | nutrients | nutrient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 taken | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 taken | advmod |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 poor | advcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 up | advmod |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 taken | compound:prt |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 plants | case |
| 15 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 taken | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rainforest soil | often, poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take up | present · passive | plants | nutrients | quickly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.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): 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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