Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 6
Its soil is surprisingly poor, because fallen leaves rot fast and the plants take the nutrients back at once.
Who acts: soil, fallen leaves, plants, rainforest · What happens: be, fall, rot, take, soil · 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 (soil, fallen leaves, plants, rainforest), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 soil | nmod:poss |
| 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 | surprisingly | surprisingly | ADV | _ | 5 poor | advmod |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 poor | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 rot | mark |
| 8 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 leaves | amod |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rot | nsubj |
| 10 | rot | rot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 poor | advcl |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 10 rot | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 plants | det |
| 14 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 take | nsubj |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rot | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nutrients | det |
| 17 | nutrients | nutrient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 back | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | rainforest's soil | poor, surprisingly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | rot | present | fallen leaves | fast property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | present | the plants | the nutrients | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nutrient=Theme | ||||
| 5 | soil | rainforest | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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: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. 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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